- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriages recognized only
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- 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
- ✔ Legal with restrictions
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Arequipa is lacking public opinion data.
Help expand our understanding of the public's view on LGBTQ+ issues in Arequipa by sharing a link to a survey from a reputable organization.
Suggest Public Opinion DataHave you lived in or visited Arequipa?
Share your experience of being LGBTQ+ in Arequipa.
Take SurveyHistory
Same-sex marriage in Arequipa is foreign same-sex marriages recognized only.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Arequipa is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Arequipa is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
In July 2020, the Third Transitory Constitutional Court of the Superior Court of Lima ordered in its Judgment No. 12 (2020) that the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC) must develop a procedure to rectify the name, sex and image components of the ID documents of trans and intersex persons, through an administrative procedure without pathologising requirements. However, RENIEC appealed this judgment and the final resolution is still pending.
In 2021, five years after it was originally submitted, the Parliamentary Commission for Women and Family of the Peruvian Congress provided its opinion on the Gender Identity Bill (Bill No. 790-2016) (2016). As of January 2023, the bill is still pending.
Moroever, in September of 2021, local media reported that for the first time in Peruvian history, a civil court ruled in favour of a trans woman who requested to change her name and sex on her DNI without undergoing gender affirmation surgery. (ILGA)
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Arequipa is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Arequipa is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Arequipa is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Arequipa is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Arequipa is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Arequipa is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Arequipa is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Arequipa is legal with restrictions.
Conversion therapy in Arequipa is banned.
Equal age of consent in Arequipa is equal.