- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- Varies by Region
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but banned for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✔ Full ban
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Pernambuco is legal.
Brazil's 1988 Constitution further strengthened affirmative protections by prohibiting any form of discrimination. Since then courts have since affirmed this additionally applies to sexual orientation.
Same-sex marriage in Pernambuco is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Pernambuco is varies by region.
Right to change legal gender in Pernambuco is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in Pernambuco is legal, but banned for minors.
LGBT discrimination in Pernambuco is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in Pernambuco is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Pernambuco is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Serving openly in military in Pernambuco is legal.
People who are legally male at the age of 18 are obligated to serve, including trans men who have transitioned or trans women who haven't changed their legal gender yet. The latter can be dispensed once the change is made.
Conversion therapy in Pernambuco is banned.
Equal age of consent in Pernambuco is equal.