- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- N/A
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
Public Opinion
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Suggest Public Opinion DataHistory
Homosexual activity in Samoa is male illegal, female legal.
Same-sex marriage in Samoa is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Samoa is state-enforced.
Despite this, there have been at least two cases of films with LGBT content getting banned from screening in the country over incompatibility with the country's laws and values.
Right to change legal gender in Samoa is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Samoa is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Samoa is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Samoa is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Samoa is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in Samoa is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Samoa is n/a.
Conversion therapy in Samoa is sexual orientation only.
LGBT Rights by District
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Samoa.