Gay group in fougamou, gabon

What's life like for LGBTQ people in Gabon? 21/07/ What’s life like for LGBT people in Gabon? Gabon is a socially conservative country, but homosexuality was not criminalised until It was the revisions to the country’s Penal Code in that first prohibited same-sex sexual relations. The Penal Code amendments introduced penalties of fines and up to six months imprisonment.

Gabon has voted to decriminalise homosexuality in a landmark ruling. In , Gabon became the 70th country in the world to ban gay sex under a penal code that vowed to publish ‘offenders’ with up to six months in jail and a fine of five million Central African francs (over £6,).