- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- Ambiguous
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- N/A
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
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Suggest Public Opinion DataHistory
Homosexual activity in Luapula is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Luapula is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Luapula is imprisonment as punishment.
This provision was used as a legal basis to arrest and prosecute Paul Kasonkomona who, in 2013, appeared on a television show arguing that the rights of sexual minorities should be recognized so that the HIV epidemic could be dealt with effectively. He was arrested by the authorities after his statement and was acquitted two years later.
Furthermore, in 2019, the Minister of Religious Affairs ordered the cancellation of a television program for allegedly "promoting homosexuality".
Right to change legal gender in Luapula is ambiguous.
Gender-affirming care in Luapula is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Luapula is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Luapula is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Luapula is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Luapula is ambiguous.
Same-sex adoption in Luapula is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Luapula is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Luapula is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Luapula is n/a.
Conversion therapy in Luapula is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Luapula is n/a.
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