Year when homosexuality was legalized

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  1. Doesn’t say much, for example being an homosexual in Italy would have still been considered a crime under different pretences same for Napoleonic France.

  2. Technically it was never illegal in Poland (because it was never mentioned)? I’m sure it was when we were divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria. It’s just that it’s a little strange to count that period, because Poland didn’t exist as a state at that time.

  3. In many countries, homosexual relations between two women was legalized (or never even banned) long before male homosexuality was. How is this illustrated in this map? Do you go by full legalization of homosexuality or only one of them?

  4. The pink color spans 99 years, blue spans like 106 years, and black is one single year.

    If you’re going to separate out examples of the earliest and latest countries, it’s odd to me that they would span such vastly different time scales

  5. Why doesn’t it correlate that much with the social acceptance/homophobia?

    Some of the countries where it was „legalized“ later are much more tolerant than others.

  6. Is it possible that homosexuality was ‘suspended’ by the Church for decades before being legalized again?

  7. What do you mean “homosexuality”? The act? Showing it in public? Marriage? And what about “legalized”? Which one and what about cultural trends? And what about conquest, did the map take changing borders and removed states into account? I think this map is made poorly, especially given how important the topic is.

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