In 2022, the southeast Asian island nation Singapore repealed its colonial-era sodomy law in Parliament, the Caribbean island of Barbados had its laws against buggery and gross indecency struck down by its high court, and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) struck down laws criminalizing same-sex intercourse in St. Kitts and Nevis and in Antigua & Barbuda. The number of nations with anti-gay laws had dropped to 71 on Feb. 17, 2021, when Bhutan repealed its anti-sodomy law. This site’s current total of 66 countries would be 70 if the list included Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, four countries that do not have laws against homosexual acts but do have repressive laws against “propaganda of homosexuality.”