- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Intersex only
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ No protections
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
According to recent survey data, there appears to be strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights in Morocco.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 11 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Morocco.
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Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
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History
Homosexual activity in Morocco is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Morocco is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Morocco is state-enforced.
The 1962 Penal Code criminalises "obscenity" in public under Article 483 which has been used to persecute LGBTIQ+ people.
Article 3 of the Decree Regulating the Right of Association prohibits associations from engaging in activities that, inter alia, “breach the laws or public morals” or “offend Islam”.
Further amendments were made by Decree No. 2-04-969 in 2005, which include prohibitive provisions, such as capacities at start-up.
LGBT organisations are refused to register by the authorities.
Right to change legal gender in Morocco is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Morocco is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Morocco is intersex only.
Hate crime protections in Morocco is no protections.
LGBT discrimination in Morocco is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Morocco is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Morocco is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Morocco is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Morocco is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Morocco is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Morocco is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Morocco is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Morocco is n/a.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Morocco.
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- Casablanca-Settat
- Marrakech-Safi
- Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab
- Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
- Fès-Meknès
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