Homosexuality
    ⚢
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ⚭
    ✔ Legal
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    ✖ Illegal
    Gender-Affirming Care
    ✔ Legal
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    Unknown
    Discrimination
    ✖ Illegal in some contexts
    Employment Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Housing Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Adoption
    ✔ Legal
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    Unknown
    Military
    ✔ Legal
    Donating Blood
    ✔ Legal
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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Support for same-sex marriage

(YGTV, 2016)
63%
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History

Homosexual activity in Gibraltar

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Homosexual activity in Gibraltar is legal.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 1993
Legal
legal since 1993
Details
Sources:
pinknews.co.uk/2007/01/29/g…
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Until 1992
Male illegal, female uncertain
Details
Sources:
pinknews.co.uk/2007/01/29/g…
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Same-sex marriage in Gibraltar

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Same-sex marriage in Gibraltar is legal.

Current status
Since Dec 15, 2016
Legal
Civil Marriage Amendment Act 2016
Details
Sources:
gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/legisl…
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Mar 28, 2014–Dec 14, 2016
Civil unions (marriage rights)
Civil Partnership Act 2014
Details
Sources:
gibraltar.gov.gi/new/marria…
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Gibraltar

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Gibraltar is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Gibraltar, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Gibraltar

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Right to change legal gender in Gibraltar is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
It is not currently possible for citizens of Gibraltar to officially change their gender.
Details
Sources:
gibraltar.gov.gi/press-rele…
gov.uk/government/publicati…
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Gender-affirming care in Gibraltar

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Gender-affirming care in Gibraltar is legal.

Current status
Legal
"A GP can refer a person with gender dysphoria to the Adult Gender Service, the government said."
Details
Sources:
gibraltar.gov.gi/press-rele…~:text=The%20Gibraltar%20Health%20Authority%20has,be%20referred%20for%20further%20information.
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Gibraltar

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Gibraltar is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

LGBT discrimination in Gibraltar

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LGBT discrimination in Gibraltar is illegal in some contexts.

Current status
Since Sep 19, 2013
Illegal in some contexts
Hate speech banned. However this does not extend to transgender individuals
Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act
2013.
Details
Sources:
gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/articl…
gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/articl…
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Dec 14, 2006–Sep 18, 2013
Illegal in some contexts
This act makes discrimination illegal in most contexts. However it failed to address hate crime law
Details
Sources:
gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/legisl…
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LGBT employment discrimination in Gibraltar

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LGBT employment discrimination in Gibraltar is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Sep 13, 2013
Sexual orientation and gender identity
under the anti-discrimination law. also the 2013 admentment.
Details
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LGBT housing discrimination in Gibraltar

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LGBT housing discrimination in Gibraltar is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Sep 19, 2013
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Details
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Same-sex adoption in Gibraltar

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Same-sex adoption in Gibraltar is legal.

Current status
Since Apr 2013
Legal
Details
Sources:
thelocal.es/20130411/gibral…
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Intersex infant surgery in Gibraltar

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Intersex infant surgery in Gibraltar is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Serving openly in military in Gibraltar

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Serving openly in military in Gibraltar is legal.

Current status
Since Jan 12, 2000
Legal
As a British Overseas Territory, Gibraltar is defended by the United Kingdom's armed forces.
Details
Sources:
assets.publishing.service.g…
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Blood donations by MSMs in Gibraltar

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Blood donations by MSMs in Gibraltar is legal.

Current status
Legal
There are no laws banning blood donation
Details
Sources:
gibraltar.gov.gi/press-rele…~:text=Blood%20donors%20must%3A,ages%20of%2018%20and%2060
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Conversion therapy in Gibraltar

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Conversion therapy in Gibraltar is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
According to the government they stated that in 2022 they would ban converision therapy. This has still not happened
Details
Sources:
gibraltar.gov.gi/press-rele…
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Equal age of consent in Gibraltar

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Equal age of consent in Gibraltar is equal.

Current status
Since Apr 9, 2011
Equal
On 8 April 2011, the Supreme Court of Gibraltar ruled that a higher age of consent of 18 for all gay sex was deemed unconstitutional, and thus mandated an equal age of consent of 16. Also at the same time decriminalised heterosexual anal sex and set the age of consent at 16 for that as well.
Details
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2012032…//www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=21474
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1993–Apr 8, 2011
Unequal
Following decriminalisation, the age of consent for gay men was set at 18, compared to 16 for heterosexuals and lesbians.
Details
Sources:
thepinknews.com/2010/06/11/…
web.archive.org/web/2012032…//www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=21474
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85 / 100
Public Opinion
63 / 100
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