- Homosexuality
- ⚢Ambiguous
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- Ambiguous
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Baalbek-Hermel is ambiguous.
Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code prohibits sexual relations that “contradict the laws of nature”.
While the law has been used to penalize homosexuality, it has been successfully challenged in court several times with defendants being acquitted. Several courts have also declined to prosecute.
Currently no national law has been passed to repeal Article 534, decriminalize homosexual activity, or clarify the position of the law.
Same-sex marriage in Baalbek-Hermel is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Baalbek-Hermel is ambiguous.
Right to change legal gender in Baalbek-Hermel is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Baalbek-Hermel is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Baalbek-Hermel is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Baalbek-Hermel is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Baalbek-Hermel is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Baalbek-Hermel is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Baalbek-Hermel is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Baalbek-Hermel is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Baalbek-Hermel is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Baalbek-Hermel is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Baalbek-Hermel is not banned.
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