- Homosexuality
- ⚢Ambiguous
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- Ambiguous
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Jabal Loubnâne is ambiguous.
Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code prohibits sexual relations that “contradict the laws of nature”.
While the law has been used to penalize homosexuality, it has been successfully challenged in court several times with defendants being acquitted. Several courts have also declined to prosecute.
Currently no national law has been passed to repeal Article 534, decriminalize homosexual activity, or clarify the position of the law.
Same-sex marriage in Jabal Loubnâne is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Jabal Loubnâne is ambiguous.
Right to change legal gender in Jabal Loubnâne is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Jabal Loubnâne is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Jabal Loubnâne is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Jabal Loubnâne is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Jabal Loubnâne is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Jabal Loubnâne is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Jabal Loubnâne is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Jabal Loubnâne is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Jabal Loubnâne is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Jabal Loubnâne is not banned.