The United Kingdom has made remarkable progress in changing attitudes towards LGBT+ communities and delivering equality in the law. We should be proud to live in a country where people can be judged not on innate characteristics, but on the content of their character. However, there are scores of countries where this is not the case, with many people still being criminalised and persecuted for simply being who they are.
Just existing as an LGBT+ person is still a luxury out of reach for many, or even a death sentence. Seventy-one jurisdictions criminalise private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity with 43 jurisdictions criminalising this between women. Fifteen jurisdictions criminalise gender identity and there are still 11 jurisdictions in which the death penalty is imposed or at