In 1935, there were 2 recorded legal changes made affecting LGBT people. In the previous year, there were 7 changes made and 1 in the following year. A total of 46 legal changes were made in the 1930s.
- September 1Homosexual activity becomes illegal (death penalty as punishment).Section 175 of the Criminal Code was amended during Nazi rule to create harsher penalties for homosexual behavior between men. Imprisonment was to range from three months to ten years in prison. Many homosexual men died in the Nazi concentration camps they were sent to.
- January 1Homosexual activity becomes male illegal, female legal.In 1935, article 121, which prohibited male sodomy, entered the criminal code of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. in the Tajik SSR, the term “sodomy” was replaced by “bachebazstvo”