- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Nicaragua is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Nicaragua is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Nicaragua is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Nicaragua is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Nicaragua is not legally recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Nicaragua is sexual orientation only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Nicaragua is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Nicaragua is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Nicaragua is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Nicaragua is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Nicaragua is legal.
Conversion therapy in Nicaragua is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Nicaragua is equal.
LGBT Rights by Department
View the LGBT laws in each individual department of Nicaragua.
- Nueva Segovia
- Rivas
- Río San Juan
- Atlántico Norte* (Autonomous Region)
- Atlántico Sur* (Autonomous Region)
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