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Dominican Republic

National Palace

The Dominican Republic, is a country located on the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, bordering Haiti. Hispaniola is the second-largest of the Greater Antilles islands, and lies west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica.

Has no sodomy laws, the age of sexual consent is 18 for all. Public morality laws, however, are especially used against gay men.