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"If progress in 2022 is anything to go by, there’s reason to be optimistic
about the global direction of travel when it comes to same-sex relationships,
LGBTQ campaigners say.
In the second half of the year, there was a flurry of movement to decriminalize
same-sex intimacy in Singapore, St Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, and Antigua and
Barbuda. These were some of the last holdouts among countries with histories of
colonial-era laws prohibiting such activity. “It feels like something of a
tipping point,” says Neela Ghoshal, Senior Director of Law, Policy and Research
for global advocacy NGO Outright International. Such developments “allows us to
really say that there is a global norm that same-sex intimacy should not be
criminalized.”
Marriage equality has come a long way too, with countries from Cuba to Slovenia
passing legislation last year; 33 governments have now legalized same-sex
unions, triple the number compared to a decade earlier according to data from
the advocacy group ILGA World.
Greece is one of a handful of countries to introduce a ban on so-called
conversion therapy for minors during the year; France, Israel and New Zealand
also took steps to make the practice of aiming to change a person’s sexual
orientation or gender identity illegal in 2022. In Brazil, LGBTQ campaigners
hope the re-election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva can row back some of the
damage done by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, while the US Congress rushed to
pass the Respect for Marriage Act and protect statutory recognition of
interracial and same-sex marriages."
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