- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Public Opinion
In Azerbaijan, public opinion suggests an alarming lack of acceptance for LGBTQ+ rights, raising serious questions about safety and inclusion.
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Same-sex marriage in Azerbaijan is banned.
Current status
Banned
Article 2.3 of the Family Code reads: "Marriage is a voluntary union of a man and a woman registered in the relevant executive authority for the purpose family."
Censorship of LGBT issues in Azerbaijan is state-enforced.
Current status
Since Oct 3, 2017
State-enforced
In Azerbaijan, there are several reports of crackdowns of LGBTQ+ people.
Right to change legal gender in Azerbaijan is illegal.
Current status
Since Oct 18, 1991
Illegal
Azerbaijan currently provides no legal path for changing gender markers on official documents.
Legal, but requires surgery
The Soviet 1972 law allowing legal sex change after undergoing sex reassignment surgery was never repealed
Gender-affirming care in Azerbaijan is banned.
Current status
Banned
Government does provide a fundamental right to gender affirming care but transgender people have been known to be refused treatment. In practice, surgery and hormone replacement therapy are not provided.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Azerbaijan is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
A Third gender is not legally recognized in Azerbaijan.
LGBT discrimination in Azerbaijan is no protections.
Current status
No protections
Only "protection" is the end of anti-sodomy laws (only in effort to join Council of Europe). Otherwise, LGBT people have no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Azerbaijan is no protections.
Current status
No protections
Excerpt: "Gay and lesbians can be thus unfairly dismissed from their jobs, and homophobia is common."
LGBT housing discrimination in Azerbaijan is no protections.
Current status
No protections
Azerbaijan does not have measures for legal recognition of non-binary gender(s).
Same-sex adoption in Azerbaijan is illegal.
Current status
Since Dec 28, 1999
Illegal
According to a study by the Council of Europe or the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, same-sex couples cannot adopt since Article 120 of the Family Code (1999) states that joint adoption is only allowed for married couples. The report suggests that in principle, there aren't any legal restrictions around adopting as an individual — gay or straight — however, all individuals are usually denied the right to adopt.
Intersex infant surgery in Azerbaijan is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
There is no official ban on unnecessary sex reassignment operations in infants in Azerbaijan.
Serving openly in military in Azerbaijan is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Blood donations by MSMs in Azerbaijan is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Conversion therapy in Azerbaijan is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Conversion therapy is not banned and the practice is reportedly commonly practiced.
Equal age of consent in Azerbaijan is equal.
Current status
Equal
The age of consent in Azerbaijan is 16 for both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples.
LGBT Rights by District
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Azerbaijan.
- Abseron
- Agcabädi
- Agdam
- Agdas
- Agstafa
- Agsu
- Astara
- Babäk
- Balakän
- Beyläqan
- Biläsuvar
- Bärdä
- Culfa
- Cäbrayil
- Cälilabab
- Daskäsän
- Füzuli
- Goranboy
- Gädäbäy
- Göygöl
- Göyçay
- Haciqabul
- Imisli
- Ismayilli
- Kälbäcär
- Kürdämir
- Kǝngǝrli
- Laçin
- Lerik
- Länkäran
- Masalli
- Neftçala
- Oguz
- Ordubad
- Qax
- Qazax
- Qobustan
- Quba
- Qubadli
- Qusar
- Qäbälä
- Saatli
- Sabirabad
- Sahbuz
- Salyan
- Samaxi
- Samux
- Siyäzän
- Susa
- Sädäräk
- Säki
- Sämkir
- Särur
- Tovuz
- Tärtär
- Ucar
- Xaçmaz
- Xizi
- Xocali
- Xocavänd
- Yardimli
- Yevlax
- Zaqatala
- Zängilan
- Zärdab
- Şabran
- Baki (Municipality)
- Gəncə (Municipality)
- Lənkəran (Municipality)
- Mingəçevir (Municipality)
- Naftalan (Municipality)
- Naxçıvan (Municipality)
- Sumqayıt (Municipality)
- Xankəndi (Municipality)
- Yevlax City (Municipality)
- Şirvan (Municipality)
- Şəki (Municipality)
- Naxçivan (Autonomous Republic)
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