- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- Ambiguous
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Female equal, male N/A
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Uzbekistan is male illegal, female legal.
Same-sex marriage in Uzbekistan is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Uzbekistan is ambiguous.
In 2021, an activist blogger who called for homosexuality to be decriminalized was sentenced to three years in jail for 'libel and public insult'.
Right to change legal gender in Uzbekistan is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-affirming care in Uzbekistan is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Uzbekistan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Uzbekistan is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Uzbekistan is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Uzbekistan is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Uzbekistan is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Uzbekistan is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Uzbekistan is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Uzbekistan is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Uzbekistan is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Uzbekistan is female equal, male n/a.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Uzbekistan.
- Samarqand
- Sirdaryo
- Surxondaryo
- Toshkent
- Xorazm
- Toshkent City (City)
- Qoraqalpog‘iston Respublikasi (Republic)
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