Mauritius is seeing a positive trend when it comes to the LGBTQ and intersex community, even though consensual same-sex sexual relations remain criminalized.
Young Queer Alliance, an LGBTQ and intersex rights group in the southern African country, on July 7 released findings of the research it conducted in 2022.
Its work indicates attitudes towards LGBTQ and intersex people in Mauritius have improved from where they were five years ago.
The number of LGBTQ and intersex couples living together has doubled from 5.6 percent in 2017 to 11 percent in 2022. Nearly 63 percent of those who identified as LGBTQ or intersex came out to a sibling in 2022, compared to 53.5 percent in 2017.