- Homosexuality
- ⚢Ambiguous
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- Ambiguous
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- 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 Loubnâne ech Chemâli 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 Loubnâne ech Chemâli is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is ambiguous.
Right to change legal gender in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Loubnâne ech Chemâli is not banned.