- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- 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
Public opinion polls in particular regions of Belarus have found that homophobic beliefs persist.
History
Homosexual activity in Belarus is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Belarus is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Belarus is imprisonment as punishment.
In 2020, the Ministry of Health endorsed a proposal to introduce administrative and criminal liability for the dissemination of information that "discredits the institution of family and marriage".
Right to change legal gender in Belarus is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
In Belarus, such permission shall issue a specially created interdepartmental commission on medical, psychological and social rehabilitation of persons with the syndrome of denial of sex. It is composed of 15 experts of the ministries of Health, Defense, Interior, Justice, Education. The Commission refers the patient to a mental health and psycho-sexological examination. A year later, after a thorough examination by psychiatrists, sexologists, urologists, gynecologists, endocrinologists and geneticists, the board makes a decision - to change this person or not.
Gender-affirming care in Belarus is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Belarus is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Belarus is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Belarus is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Belarus is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Belarus is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Belarus is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Belarus is legal.
Conversion therapy in Belarus is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Belarus is equal.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Belarus.
- Brestskaya voblasts
- Homyel'skaya voblasts
- Hrodzenskaya voblasts
- Mahilyowskaya voblasts
- Minskaya voblasts
- Vitsyebskaya voblasts
- Horad Minsk (City)