- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- Varies by Region
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion polls in particular regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina have found that homophobic beliefs persist.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Surveys
Support for holding of pride parades
Orthodox Christian Support for Church's Position of Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage
History
Homosexual activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina is legal.
Article 186: for unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex, the perpetrator shall be punished with imprisonment for up to two years.
The 1959 amendment reduced the prison sentence by one year.
Paragraph 285: for unnatural fornication between persons, the perpetrator shall be punished with strict imprisonment, unless the act turns into a more serious crime.
Same-sex marriage in Bosnia and Herzegovina is unrecognized.
On 19 October 2018, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) adopted a request for the legalisation of civil unions.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Bosnia and Herzegovina is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina is illegal.
Since Sep 14, 2016
The law is applied at the level of the state, entities, cantons and Br?ko District.
Due to the use of imprecise terms, the law was amended in 2016.
LGBT employment discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Sep 14, 2016
LGBT housing discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Bosnia and Herzegovina is illegal.
Serving openly in military in Bosnia and Herzegovina is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Bosnia and Herzegovina is varies by region.
Since 2012
Until 2012
Conversion therapy in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Bosnia and Herzegovina is equal.
LGBT Rights by Entity
View the LGBT laws in each individual entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.