Editing Sodomy laws (section)

=== Modern Era ===
==== During the Russian Revolution ====
[[File:Vladimir Lenin attending the 8th Party Congress.jpg|left|thumb|227x227px|[[Vladimir Lenin]], Russian communist revolutionary that legalized homosexuality.]]
In 1917, following the Russian revolution by the Bolsheviks led by [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and Lev Trotsky, the former Russian Empire legalized homosexuality. [[File:Joseph Stalin (colorized).jpg|thumb|216x216px|[[Joseph Stalin]], Russian dictator that delegalized homosexuality.]]

==== During [[Stalin]]'s regime ====
However, when [[Joseph Stalin]] came to power in the 1920s, these laws were reversed until homosexuality was effectively illegal again.

In Russia, sexual activity between males was criminalized by state law on the 4th March 1934, for the entire territory of the then Soviet Union. On the 27th May 1993, homosexual acts between consenting males were decriminalized.

==== In the UK ====
After the publication of the Wolfende report in 1957, it began to be argued in the UK that "homosexual behavior between consenting adults committed in private should no longer be considered a criminal offense". As a result, many Western governments have had all those laws specifically directed against homosexual acts repealed. 

==== In the USA ====
In June 2003, the Supreme Court of the United States of America ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that state laws criminalizing private life, with sexual activity not induced by prostitution between consenting adults, were unconstitutional because of morality as there is insufficient justification for intrusion into people's freedom and privacy.

==== Recent years ====
Even though in many parts of the world (especially in the West) these laws have been repealed, there are still other countries that have these laws.
[[File:Sodomy laws in the world..png|center|thumb|395x395px|Graph showing how many countries in the world still have sodomy laws (represented in red).]]
Sodomy is still illegal in Mauritius, Barbados, Guyana, Dominica, Jamaica, Grenada, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Grenadines, Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar and Yemen.
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