Updated September 2025: Burkina Faso criminalizes homosexuality Homosexuality is no longer as widely criminalized as it used to be, but a total of 65 nations still have laws against homosexuality. The latest nation to adopt an anti-gay law is Burkina Faso in West Africa, on Sept. 1, 2025. About a month earlier, same-sex intimacy was … Continue reading List of 65 countries where homosexuality is illegal