- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Equatorial Guinea is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Equatorial Guinea is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Equatorial Guinea is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Equatorial Guinea is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Equatorial Guinea is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Equatorial Guinea is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Equatorial Guinea is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Equatorial Guinea is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Equatorial Guinea is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Equatorial Guinea is single only.
To legally process an adoption application, the applicant must present a Certificate of Suitability, issued by the Social Services, and endorsed by the competent Prosecutor, and Psychosocial Reports, issued by the Psychosocial Section of the Social Services. However, since there are no legal protections for LGBT persons, accessing these documents being openly homosexual or transgender is unlikely.
Intersex infant surgery in Equatorial Guinea is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Equatorial Guinea is illegal.
"Any military member who commits dishonest acts with individuals of the same sex will be punished with a prison sentence of six months and one day to six years. Whatever the sentence imposed for this crime, it will always entail dismissal from service."
Blood donations by MSMs in Equatorial Guinea is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Equatorial Guinea is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Equatorial Guinea is equal.
LGBT Rights by Province
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