- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Civil unions (marriage rights)
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent studies in Cyprus have revealed a prevalence of resistance towards LGBTQ+ rights.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 5 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Cyprus.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Homosexual activity in Cyprus is legal.
With independence from Britain in 1960, Cyprus retained British colonial law on the island almost in its entirety, with the relevant parts of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 becoming articles 171 to 174 of Chapter 154 of the Cypriot Criminal Code
Censorship of LGBT issues in Cyprus is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Cyprus is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in Cyprus is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Cyprus is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Cyprus is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Cyprus is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Cyprus is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Cyprus is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Cyprus is not banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Cyprus is legal.
Conversion therapy in Cyprus is banned.