Number of LGBT-related laws changed over time
- January 1Equal age of consent becomes unequal.The age of consent in Suriname is 16 for heterosexuals, and 18 for homosexuals.
- July 1
- (date unknown)Equal age of consent becomes equal.
- January 1Homosexual activity becomes male illegal, female legal.Under The Offences Against the Person Act (1864) (Article 76) Female same-sex encounters are not explicitly outlawed. However, all individuals are prohibited from buggery (anal sex) with another individual. The punishment for buggery is up to 10 years imprisonment, with hard labor.
- January 1Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).The Indian Penal Code was enacted by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature during British direct rule in India. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalized same-sex sexual acts and carried a penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment.
- November 1Homosexual activity becomes illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).The Offences Against the Person Act 1861 lowered the maximum penalty to life imprisonment. Subsequent laws, such as The Labouchere Amendment (Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885) redefined the offence and allowed for other punishments, for example Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labour in 1895, and in 1952 Alan Turing was chemically castrated. Female homosexuality and sexual acts were not addressed in the law, and therefore, they technically would have been legal, though the law often applied the law towards women.
- May 1Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Section 377 of Myanmar's Penal Code states: "Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with transportation for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine."
- January 1Homosexual activity becomes illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).The Offences Against the Persons Act, 1861 made “buggery” an offence punishable by penal servitude. Under the section “Unnatural Offences”, the Act read: “Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal shall be liable … to be kept in penal servitude for life.”
- Homosexual activity becomes illegal (imprisonment as punishment).Under colonial era statutes, homosexuality is illegal in Myanmar with up to 20 years in prison. Torture and vigilante executions are also common.
- (date unknown)
- Homosexual activity becomes male illegal, female legal.Male homosexuality is technically punishable with life imprisonment but is rarely enforced.
- October 6Same-sex marriage becomes banned.Homosexuality is illegal in Bangladesh, so same-sex relationships are illegal as well.
- Homosexual activity becomes illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).Section 377 of the penal code states that "unnatural intersources" with any men women or animal is punishable for up to life in prison.
- May 12Homosexual activity becomes male illegal, female legal.
- January 1