Lgbtq+ map
Rainbow Map
2025 rainbow map
These are the main findings for the 2025 edition of the rainbow map
The Rainbow Map ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI people, from 0-100%.
The UK has dropped six places in ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map, as Hungary and Georgia also register steep falls following anti-LGBTI legislation. The data highlights how rollbacks on LGBTI human rights are part of a broader erosion of democratic protections across Europe. Read more in our press release.
“Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights, cynically framed as the defence of tradition or public stability, but in reality designed to entrench discrimination and suppress dissent.”
- Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director, ILGA-Europe
Malta has sat on top of the ranking for the last 10 years.
With 85 points, Belgium jumped to second place after adopting policies tackling hatred based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.
Iceland now comes third place on the ranking with a score of 84.
The three ILGA World maps are among the most mutual visual representations of how LGBTIQ people are affected by laws and policies around the world. The scope of our long-standing rights mapping has expanded thanks to the ILGA World Database. With that platform, ILGA maps have turn into interactive and constantly updated, to improve cover sexual orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a other gender or the same gender or more than one gender. More, gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More and utterance, and sex characteristicsa term that refers to physical features relating to sex - including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and secondary physical features emerging from puberty. More (SOGIESCabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender self & expression, and sex characteristics. More) issues globally. Our LGBTIQ rights maps cover more than 100 topics, as well as how SOGIESCabbrev The Movement Advancement Project (MAP) tracks over 50 different LGBTQ-related laws and policies. This route shows the overall policy tallies (as distinct from sexual orientation or gender identity tallies) for each state, the District of Columbia, and the five populated U.S. territories. A state’s policy tally scores the laws and policies within each state that shape LGBTQ people's lives, experiences, and equality. The major categories of laws covered by the policy tally include: Relationship & Parental Recognition, Nondiscrimination, Religious Exemptions, LGBTQ Youth, Health Care, Criminal Justice, and Identity Documents. High Overall Policy Tally (15 states + D.C.) Medium Overall Policy Tally (5 states) Fair Overall Policy Tally (3 states, 2 territories) Low Overall Policy Tally (10 states, 3 territories) Negative Overall Policy Tally (17 states) Your privacy is vital to us. We want to be sure you recognize how and why we use your data. View our Privacy Statement for more details. This also includes knowledge on how we use cookies. Accept Criminalisation: Maximum punishment: Death penalty Criminalisation: Maximum punishment: Life imprisonment Criminalisation: Maximum punishment: Death by stoning Criminalisation: Maximum punishment: Eight years imprisonment and 100 lashes Criminalisation:
LGBTQ+ Worldwide Travel Map
Country Comment Afghanistan Avoid move. Death penalty or imprisonment is possible for for homosexual activity. Albania Would not hint PDA, be careful in public. LGBT people are protected from discrimination but same sex unions are not recognised. Algeria No PDA in public, would not suggest travel. Homosexuality is illegal and punishable by imprisonment. Angola Would not suggest PDA, be careful in public, although a law is pending to make homosexuality legal. Same sex union is not recognised. Argentina General acceptance. Easier for homosexual women to be gay than it is for men. Armenia Would not suggest PDA. Social acceptance is minimal: tradition and religion makes homosexuality taboo. Australia Complete acceptance in most areas, PDA is ok and gay marriage is legal. Austria Same sex marriage has been legal since 2019, Vienna is more tolerant than the rest of the country. Azerbaijan Would not suggest PDA, LGBT travellers should run-in no problems if they are discreet. Bangladesh No PDA in public, would not suggest travel. Belarus Would not suggest PDA, be careful in universal, Homophobia is r Snapshot: LGBTQ Equality by State
Click on any state to view its detailed policy tally and state profile, or click "Choose an Issue" above to view maps on over 50 other LGBTQ-related laws and policies.