By John Mack Freeman
A new penal code will take effect in Mozambique on Monday, June 1st that will no longer list homosexuality as a crime. The old penal code was originally approved in 1887 when Mozambique was still a colony of Portugal. Although homosexuality was never specifically mentioned, it was often charged as a crime using a clause that prohibited “vices against nature.”
With this change, the number of countries officially criminalizing same sex behavior drops to 78.
