- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Censorship of LGBT Issues in Cape Verde is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Cape Verde is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Cape Verde is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Cape Verde is illegal in some contexts.
Same-sex adoption in Cape Verde is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Cape Verde is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Cape Verde is ambiguous.
Blood donations by MSMs in Cape Verde is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Cape Verde is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Cape Verde is equal.
LGBT Rights by Municipality
View the LGBT laws in each individual municipality of Cape Verde.
- Ribeira Grande
- Ribeira Grande de Santiago
- Sal
- Santa Catarina
- Santa Catarina do Fogo
- Santa Cruz
- São Domingos
- São Filipe
- São Lourenço dos Órgãos
- São Miguel
- São Salvador do Mundo
- São Vicente
- Tarrafal
- Tarrafal de São Nicolau
- Ilhas de Barlavento (Geographical Region)
- Ilhas de Sotavento (Geographical Region)
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- Jackninja5 1 contribution
- JuliaB 1 contribution
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