- 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
Recent studies in Zambia reveal an alarming level of opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, causing concern for LGBTQ+ individuals.
History
Homosexual activity in Zambia is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Zambia is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Zambia 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 Zambia is ambiguous.
Gender-affirming care in Zambia is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Zambia is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Zambia is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Zambia is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Zambia is ambiguous.
Same-sex adoption in Zambia is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Zambia is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Zambia is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Zambia is n/a.
Conversion therapy in Zambia is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Zambia is n/a.
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