East is governed by federal Cameroon law. Learn more
- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Same-sex marriage in East is banned.
Current status
Since Nov 12, 1967
Banned
Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
Censorship of LGBT issues in East is imprisonment as punishment.
Current status
Since Dec 21, 2010
Imprisonment as punishment
Article 83 of the Law on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime of 2010 in Cameroon carried penalties of up to two years imprisonment and a fine for any interactions between the same sex online for the purposes of sexual propositions. The penalties are also doubled if sexual intercourse is followed up on.
Section 264 of the Penal Code (2016) criminalises the public utterance of any “immoral speech” and the drawing of the public’s attention to any “occasion of immorality”. In light of the criminalisation of same-sex intimacy, a legal scholar has suggested that a publicly uttered speech advocating “unnatural sexual indulgence” would be considered “immoral”.
Section 264 of the Penal Code (2016) criminalises the public utterance of any “immoral speech” and the drawing of the public’s attention to any “occasion of immorality”. In light of the criminalisation of same-sex intimacy, a legal scholar has suggested that a publicly uttered speech advocating “unnatural sexual indulgence” would be considered “immoral”.
Right to change legal gender in East is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Gender marker change is not possible in Cameroon. Transgender and gender diverse people are de facto criminalised.
Gender-affirming care in East is banned.
Current status
Banned
Gender-Affirming Care in Cameroon is banned
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in East is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
The option of identifying as “non-binary/intersex/gender non-conforming” is not available.
LGBT discrimination in East is no protections.
Current status
No protections
There are no protections from discrimination provided to LGBTIQ+ people in Cameroon.
LGBT employment discrimination in East is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in East is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Same-sex adoption in East is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
No laws in place for same sex couples.
Intersex infant surgery in East is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
There is no ban on surgeries performed on intersex infants in Cameroon.
Serving openly in military in East is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Homosexuality is currently illegal.
Conversion therapy in East is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Conversion therapy is legal and widespread in Cameroon.
Equal age of consent in East is n/a.
Current status
N/A
Homosexuality is illegal.
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