Century Buggery Act News Today

news The colonial law that left an anti-LGBTQ legacy in Asia © Getty Images Before India legalised homosexual sex in 2018, at least one billion people in Asia lived with some form of anti-LGBTQ legislation For much of the past two centuries, it was illegal to be gay in a vast swathe of the world - thanks to colonial Britain. Till today, colonial-era laws that ban homosexuality continue to exist in former British territories including parts of Africa and Oceania. But it is in Asia where they ...