- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Ambiguous
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
In Azerbaijan, public opinion suggests an alarming lack of acceptance for LGBTQ+ rights, raising serious questions about safety and inclusion.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 5 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Azerbaijan.
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Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
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Visibility & Representation
Culture
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History
Censorship of LGBT issues in Azerbaijan is state-enforced.
Gender-affirming care in Azerbaijan is ambiguous.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Azerbaijan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Azerbaijan is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Azerbaijan is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Azerbaijan is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Azerbaijan is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Azerbaijan is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Azerbaijan is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Azerbaijan is legal.
Conversion therapy in Azerbaijan is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Azerbaijan is equal.
LGBT Rights by District
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Azerbaijan.
- Abseron
- Agcabädi
- Agdam
- Agdas
- Agstafa
- Agsu
- Astara
- Babäk
- Balakän
- Beyläqan
- Biläsuvar
- Bärdä
- Culfa
- Cäbrayil
- Cälilabab
- Daskäsän
- Füzuli
- Goranboy
- Gädäbäy
- Göygöl
- Göyçay
- Haciqabul
- Imisli
- Ismayilli
- Kälbäcär
- Kürdämir
- Kǝngǝrli
- Laçin
- Lerik
- Länkäran
- Masalli
- Neftçala
- Oguz
- Ordubad
- Qax
- Qazax
- Qobustan
- Quba
- Qubadli
- Qusar
- Qäbälä
- Saatli
- Sabirabad
- Sahbuz
- Salyan
- Samaxi
- Samux
- Siyäzän
- Susa
- Sädäräk
- Säki
- Sämkir
- Särur
- Tovuz
- Tärtär
- Ucar
- Xaçmaz
- Xizi
- Xocali
- Xocavänd
- Yardimli
- Yevlax
- Zaqatala
- Zängilan
- Zärdab
- Şabran
- Baki (Municipality)
- Gəncə (Municipality)
- Lənkəran (Municipality)
- Mingəçevir (Municipality)
- Naftalan (Municipality)
- Naxçıvan (Municipality)
- Sumqayıt (Municipality)
- Xankəndi (Municipality)
- Yevlax City (Municipality)
- Şirvan (Municipality)
- Şəki (Municipality)
- Naxçivan (Autonomous Republic)
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