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Bangkok Post
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LGBTQ rights across the globe: marriage to the death penalty

People attend a LGBTQ+ Pride parade in Bangkok on June 5, 2022. (Reuters photo)

Singapore announced on Sunday that it will repeal a law criminalising gay sex but in many other parts of the world homosexuality is illegal and sometimes subject to the death penalty.

According to a report published in 2020 by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), homosexuality was prohibited in 69 countries, including 11 where it is punishable by death.

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