International Perspectives
For the countries listed below, no dispute or uncertainty regarding the legal status of capital punishment as a possible penalty for same-sex sexual conduct exists. Around the world, queer people continue to face discrimination, violence, harassment and social stigma. While social movements have marked progress towards acceptance in many countries, in others homosexuality continues to be outlawed and penalised, sometimes with death.
Here are the 11 countries where being gay is punishable by death
Even in jurisdictions that do not explicitly criminalise women, lesbians and bisexual women have been subjected to arrest or threat of arrest. 12 countries have jurisdictions in which the death penalty is imposed or at least a possibility for private, consensual same-sex sexual activity. Brunei is introducing new Islamic laws making homosexuality an offence punishable by stoning to death. The move has attracted international condemnation and its part of a wider range of strict laws against a host of other crimes such as theft being punished by amputation. Which countries impose the death penalty on gay people?
Same-sex sexual activity is a crime in 70 countries. Some of them, including six nations that are members of the United Nations, impose the death penalty. Another five make such punishment. Although the Afghan Penal Code does not contain an explicit provision prohibiting consensual sexual relations between persons of the same sex, Article of the Constitution allows for the application of Sharia law. Thus, any sexual relations outside marriage can lead to a death sentence. 
Countries Where Being Gay Is Legally Punishable by Death
In 12 of these countries, the death penalty is either enforced or remains a possibility for private, consensual same-sex sexual activity. In many cases, the laws only apply to sexual relations between two men, but 38 countries have amendments that include those between women in their definitions. By Daniel Megarry. While LGBTQ rights have made great strides in parts of the world, homosexuality remains illegal in an estimated 70 countries, and 11 countries carry the potential for the death penalty, particularly among men who have sex with men.
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There are currently 11 countries where being gay can get you killed under law. While LGBTQ rights have made great strides in parts of the world, homosexuality remains illegal in an estimated 70 countries, and 11 countries carry the potential for the death penalty, particularly among men who have sex with men. Almost half of them are Commonwealth jurisdictions. Even in jurisdictions that do not explicitly criminalise women, lesbians and bisexual women have been subjected to arrest or threat of arrest. 12 Countries Where Homosexuals Face Death Penalty
These 12 countries have jurisdictions in which private, consensual same-sex sexual activity is punishable to death or at least have the possibility of death penalty, according to the Human Dignity Trust. . 
Capital punishment for homosexuality
There are twelve countries in which the death penalty is actively imposed, or could be imposed, for consensual same-sex sexual contact: Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, and Yemen. .
Pride Month
Written by Céline Martin (an international consultant on LGBTQIA+ issues), ECPM questions the intersection of gender, sexual orientation and the death penalty, to explore the discrimination faced by sexual and gender minorities from a legal perspective. .