At the end of World War II, homosexuality was illegal in all but a score of nations. Today, the balance of global attitudes has reversed sharply; 120 nations have decriminalised homosexuality while about 80 retain it as a crime.
China
Laws prohibiting homosexuality were also passed in China. (China neither adopted an Abrahamic religion nor was colonized, except for Hong Kong and Macau which were colonized with Victorian era social mores and maintain separate legal system from the rest of China.) Homosexuality was not decriminalized there until 1997.[29] Prior to 1997, homosexual in mainland China was found guilty included in a general definition under the vague vocabulary of hooliganism, there are no specifically anti-homosexual laws.[30]