The Delhi queer pride parade in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 8.
Photographer: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
Where Change Is Coming for LGBTQ Rights Around the World
Activists expect positive momentum in 2023 for the community as a whole in countries from Brazil to Greece, but worry about friction over transgender people.
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.”