- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but restricted for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Prizren is legal.
Since the self-proclaimed independence of 2008, homosexuality has been legal in the Republic of Kosovo.
The same sentence remained after reintegration into the legal system of Serbia in 1989.
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 to up to 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.
Paragraph 206: Unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex to be punished by imprisonment from six months to four years and loss of civil honor.
Same-sex marriage in Prizren is unrecognized.
Constitution from 2008 does not have definition of marriage. Article 28: "Based on free will, everyone enjoys the right to marry and the right to have a family as provided by law. Marriage and divorce are regulated by law and are based on the equality of spouses".
Bearing in mind the fact that the Constitution prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, the President of the Constitutional Court said in 2014 that Kosovo de jure allows same-sex marriage but that due to political reasons the issue is unclear.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Prizren is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Prizren is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Prizren is not legally recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Prizren is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Prizren is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Prizren is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Prizren is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Prizren is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Prizren is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Prizren is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Prizren is equal.