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May 17, 2016 Why is it celebrated on May 17?May 17, 1990 is a historic date: 26 years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses, calling it for the first time "a natural variant of human behavior". Today this date is remembered by celebrating the "world day against homophobia". However, the path to reach this goal has been long.
Gay communities began to claim civil rights in western countries only in the early 1970s. At the same time, the scientific world also began to review the theories about homosexuality: in 1974 it was canceled by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). There are many intermediate stages, starting from the first version of the 1952 manual where homosexuality was still a psychopathological condition among the "Sociopathic Personality Disorders"; in 1968 it was considered a sexual deviation, like pedophilia, cataloged among the "Non-Psychotic Mental Disorders". And still in 1974 the scientific texts spoke of "ego-dystonic homosexuality", that is, the condition in which a homosexual person does not accept his sexual orientation and does not live it with serenity. This theory will be overcome in 1987 but will have its official status only with the decision taken by the WHO in 1990.
Still considered a crime in 86 countries
Currently, 86 countries in the world condemn same-sex relations with penalties that include prison , flogging and the death penalty.
Death penalty in seven countries
There are seven countries where homosexuality, especially male homosexuality, is punished with the death penalty.
In some of them a distinction is made on the basis of gender, prescribing more severe penalties for relations between men. In Iran , for example, there is a death penalty for sodomy, while the law prescribes 100 lashes for lesbianism. Similarly in Mauritania where male homosexuality is punished with stoning, while female homosexuality can cost up to two years in prison and a fine of 60,000 ouguiya, equal to about $ 210.
In Qatar and the United Arab Emirates , sodomy can be punished with the death penalty.
In Saudi Arabia , where the sentences derive from the interpretation of the Shari'a, married men and non-Muslims are subjected to stoning; for unmarried men, however, 100 lashes and one year's exile from the community are foreseen. Similarly, the Yemen penal code condemns married men to stoning, while unmarried men are punished with 100 lashes and one year in prison. For homosexual women, however, the law establishes prison terms of up to 3 years and 100 lashes.
In Sudan there is a progressive penis system. The first and second convictions for homosexuality can cost the accused a whiplash and 5 years in prison; however, in the event of a third conviction, the judicial system provides for life imprisonment or the death penalty. Stoning is also planned
in the 12 states of the Nigerian Federation , where Shari'a is in force.
Severe penalties also in the United States
Although in 2015 the Supreme Court recognized the right to marriage for homosexual couples, a decision preceded by a sentence of 2003 that declared the anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional and archaic, there are 12 US States where they still remain in these rules apply: in the event of sodomy, up to 15 years in prison in Michigan are foreseen , which drop to a maximum of 10 in Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Idaho .
Data from lgbt-rights-hrw.silk.co