Oct. 11 is NationalComingOutDay, celebrated in America’s LGBTQ community as an opportunity to share coming out stories and reflect on social gains. But in nations that criminalize LGBTQ people, coming out can result in banishment, jail, or even death.
“Coming out is still a life and death question in many places around the world,” Braun told NBC OUT. “LGBT people continue to be arrested, prosecuted, lashed, raped, forced or coerced into straight marriages, assaulted and murdered if their identity is known or suspected.”
Braun said that international policy is trending toward LGBTQ equality, with Belize, Seychelles, Mozambique, Nauru and Palau recently decriminalizing homosexuality. But as a smattering of nations slowly drop laws that send LGBTQ people to jail or death row, the situation remains dire for many elsewhere.
“Visibility is key for the advancement of LGBTI human rights," ILGA Executive Director Renato Sabbadini told NBC OUT via email. “Most people are more likely to understand the discrimination LGBTI people face and empathise with them if they realize that the LGBTI acronym is used not to refer to an empty abstraction—but to identify a set of real people, including their children, relatives, friends or colleagues.
But even when being LGBTQ isn’t punishable by death or life imprisonment at the hands of your government, it’s not always safe to be out. Stan Ibrahim is a Kuwaiti transgender man who publishes the world’s only. He shared his own coming-out story with NBC OUT, explaining that while being LGBTQ can get you sent to jail in Kuwait, “at least you won’t be killed or beheaded.”
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