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: In countries like Uganda, the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act punishes same-sex intimacy with life imprisonment or even death, leading to a rise in "police stings" where dates turn into violent arrests.

Before the 1970s, homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder. To "fix" what they deemed deviancy, psychiatrists used methods that are now considered torture:

: After the war, LGBTQ+ victims were often excluded from memorials. In 2017, Germany finally voted to pardon and compensate survivors who had been imprisoned under "Paragraph 175," a law that criminalized male homosexual acts and remained in some form until 1994. Contemporary Dangers

: In Sydney, Australia, attackers have used dating apps to lure gay teenagers into ambushes, filming themselves assaulting the victims.

: Some domestic leaders continue to use extreme rhetoric; for example, a Texas pastor was recently labeled a hate group leader after a sermon calling for gay people to be "shot in the back of the head". Psychological & Social Toll

: Patients were subjected to electroconvulsive shocks while being shown erotic images to create a painful association with their desire.

For decades, the stories of gay people were systematically wiped from public record or suppressed by governments:

: Practices like lobotomies and psychoanalysis were common until 1973, when homosexuality was finally removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Institutional Erasure