- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Civil unions (marriage rights)
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Grad Zagreb is legal.
Article 186: for unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex, the perpetrator shall be punished with imprisonment for up to two years.
The 1959 amendment reduced the prison sentence by one year.
Paragraph 285: for unnatural fornication between persons, the perpetrator shall be punished with strict imprisonment, unless the act turns into a more serious crime.
Same-sex marriage in Grad Zagreb is civil unions (marriage rights).
Same-sex couples became equal to married couples in everything except the adoption of children. However, the law allows custody of the partner's child in some situations.
The adoption of the law was preceded by the Constitutional Referendum on the definition of marriage held on December 1, 2013. The citizens declared that they were in favor of including a provision in the Constitution according to which marriage is the life union of a man and a woman.
The law allowed same-sex partners who have lived together for a minimum of 3 years similar rights to unmarried heterosexual partners in terms of inheritance and financial support, but not the right to adoption or any other right under family law. Such relationships could not be registered, nor did they have rights in terms of taxes, joint property, health insurance, pensions, etc.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Grad Zagreb is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Grad Zagreb is legal, no restrictions.
Guidelines about the method of collecting medical documentation and determining conditions and assumptions for sex change or life in another gender identity from 2014, Article 2 (2):
"No person shall be forced to undergo medical procedures, including surgical sex adjustment, sterilization or hormone therapy, as a condition for recognition of a change of sex or life in another gender identity."
Gender-affirming care in Grad Zagreb is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Grad Zagreb is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Grad Zagreb is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Grad Zagreb is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Grad Zagreb is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Grad Zagreb is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Grad Zagreb is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Grad Zagreb is legal.
Article 12 (3) of the Law on Service in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia, adopted on June 14, 2013, prohibits discrimination in the army on several grounds, one of which is sexual orientation.
Blood donations by MSMs in Grad Zagreb is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Grad Zagreb is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Grad Zagreb is equal.