Over 60 countries criminalize consensual same-sex relations, with roughly a dozen including Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and UAE retaining death penalties. ILGA data confirms this, and recent enforcement spikes in Uganda and Brunei's expanded sharia provisions illustrate active implementation. The post's headline is accurate but omits that enforcement varies dramatically — many statutes are rarely applied despite creating legal insecurity, while a smaller number are actively enforced. What's missing: most criminalized countries use imprisonment, not death penalties, and the geopolitical drivers (religious law, colonial-era statutes, recent legislative changes) that explain why these laws persist.