[Foundation-l] Concern for the safety of Wikimedians at Wikimania in Alexandria.

[Chad]

The problem was, sodomy wasn't exactly enforced
in the United States (it is elsewhere though!). You
didn't see people going to jail for practicing sodomy.
Striking it down was more of a symbolic change than
a real change in American sex lives.

-Chad

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Williamson ha scritto:
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> > I think the main difference here is that drug use is illegal in almost
>  > every country, the Netherlands being an exception. Homosexual activity
>  > is decriminalized in almost all of the Americas and Europe as well as
>  > much of Asia (which is not part of the Western world, so there!).
>  >
>  BTW, according to
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_States it seems
>  that until 2003 a few states in the US had laws against sodomy, meaning
>  that those places would have been considered unsafe for LGBT people.
>  Fortunately things have changed now, but I have the feeling that there
>  wouldn't have been such the havoc in this mailing list if Wikimania 2002
>  had been scheduled in Idaho or Oklahoma.
>
>  Every location would have some problems for someone, being it the
>  difficulty/impossibility to get a visa or pay for the airfare, diseases,
>  restrictive laws, terrorism threats.
>  Cruccone
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