![]() Ticketmaster added that its verified fans program eventually did get tickets into the hands of real fans, not bots. On its website Ticketmaster said a "new record" of fans were seeking tickets, and claims less than 5% of the tickets for the Eras tour have been sold or posted for resale on the secondary market. "I think in many ways consumers are really held hostage," Schakowsky said. The letter claims that during the Taylor Swift Eras tour sale, "millions of fans endured delays, lockouts, and competition with aggressive scammers, scalpers, and bots," adding that it "raises concerns over the potential unfair and deceptive practices that face consumers and eventgoers." She and a bipartisan group of congressional leaders sent a letter to Ticketmaster asking them to come in for a briefing and give a full explanation of its sales process. Schakowsky is chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee. So we are calling them in," Schakowsky said. Gay sex is no longer as widely criminalized as it used to be, but a total of 69 nations still have laws against it."We want a complete explanation of the problems that we have had. Antigua & Barbuda and Saint Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean, Bhutan in the Himalayas and Gabon in central Africa are the most recent countries to have repealed their anti-gay laws. Map of the 69 countries where sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal. Such laws apply in parts of Indonesia, so it is shown here in orange. In Singapore, the law is formally suspended and the government has announced a repeal, so it is shown in yellow. ![]() THE LIST: A tally of nations with anti-homosexuality laws. (Mostly the lists differ only in relatively small ways, such as whether they are limited to United Nations member nations.) HISTORY: Recent history of many nations repealing or overturning those laws and a few nations newly adopting them.ĬOMPARISON: A comparison of this blog’s list with the similar list compiled by ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. This page is duplicated in an Erasing 76 Crimes post, which is also titled “70 countries where homosexuality is illegal”. The page is needed because its Internet address has become the destination for many other sites’ hyperlinks.) (The post is needed because the website couldn’t display a page properly. Indonesia (Aceh Province, South Sumatra Province and four cities in other provinces).Here is this blog’s list of 70 countries and independent political entities with anti-homosexuality laws, with links to the blog’s coverage of them. Dominica (But see “ Dominica leader: No enforcement of anti-gay law“).Singapore (But top court says the law is unenforceable.).Lebanon (law ruled invalid in one court in 2014 and disqualified for use against same-sex intimacy in another court in February 2017). In the United States, anti-sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. ![]() Supreme Court in 2003, but they are still on the books in 14 states: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. Conservative state legislators refuse to repeal the laws and, in some cases, police occasionally still arrest people on the basis of them. In the recent past, dozens of LGBT people were arrested for violating those laws, but the arrestees were freed because prosecutors won’t seek convictions based on laws that have been ruled unconstitutional. Recently, on Supreme Court Justice has opined that the Court should revisit its decision that decriminalized sodomy. ![]() No country in Europe has a law against homosexuality.
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