- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Região Autónoma da Madeira is legal.
Since Sep 23, 1982
Same-sex marriage in Região Autónoma da Madeira is legal.
Since May 31, 2010
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Região Autónoma da Madeira is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Região Autónoma da Madeira is legal, no restrictions.
Since Aug 8, 2018
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Região Autónoma da Madeira is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Região Autónoma da Madeira is illegal in some contexts.
Since Jul 24, 2004
LGBT employment discrimination in Região Autónoma da Madeira is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Jan 16, 2015
LGBT housing discrimination in Região Autónoma da Madeira is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Região Autónoma da Madeira is legal.
Since Mar 1, 2016
Serving openly in military in Região Autónoma da Madeira is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Since 1999
Trans people aren't explicitly banned from joining the army, but due to discrimination and regulations that also apply to cis people, but more commonly affect trans people, they are unable to join.
Blood donations by MSMs in Região Autónoma da Madeira is legal.
Since Apr 7, 2010
Conversion therapy in Região Autónoma da Madeira is banned.
Since Jan 20, 2024
Until Jan 19, 2024
In 2023, Portugal's parliament passed a bill that includes a ban on conversion therapy, amongst other measures, but this needs to be passed by the President of the Republic before it becomes law.
In 2019, after an open letter by 250 psychologists to the the regulatory Ordem dos Psicólogos, the body affirmed that conversion therapy is malpractice and has no basis in science and is not justifiable.
Equal age of consent in Região Autónoma da Madeira is equal.
Since 2007