Source language: English
Imagine you were and outcast for being left-handed
Imagine your government would jail you for you skin colour
In more than 70 countries people are being persecuted for being gay
Examples:
Shariah law criminalises denouncing Islam, adultery, stealing and rape punishable by death
...and homosexuality.
In 2005 these two teens were hanged.
It's not a single case...
More than 4000 gays have been executed since the Ayatolla [Islamic clerics] seized power in 1979.
Public hangings are most common.
The U.S. army reports simmilar cases in Iraq.
In Nigeria, both the Christian south and the Islamic north prohibit same-sex relationships.
More than a dozen have been sentenced to death by stoning since 2000.
A new law prohibits even meeting gay people with up to 5 years of prison.
Jamaica has the highest murder rate in the world.
Mobs attack gay or trans people, calling for their death.
Some Reggae [Jamaican music] artists instigate the violence against "batty men" [deragatory Jamaican term for gays, "faggots"] through their lyrics.
Although some countries don't official persecute...
Gays and lesbians are intimidated by hatred...
and attacked in public.
Love is no crime
No matter where
No matter whom [you love]
Favorite translations
Original text - English - Illegal Life - Where being gay is forbidden
an outcast 