- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal with restrictions
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent studies in El Salvador have revealed a prevalence of resistance towards LGBTQ+ rights.
History
Homosexual activity in El Salvador is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in El Salvador is state-enforced.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in El Salvador is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in El Salvador is illegal.
Protection against LGBT discrimination in:
Health: Ministerial Agreement No. 202 (2009), Law 307 (2016).
Public empleoyment: Decree No. 56 (2010).
Clinical practice for students: Law 227 (2019)
Education: Law 431 (2022).
LGBT employment discrimination in El Salvador is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in El Salvador is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Serving openly in military in El Salvador is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in El Salvador is legal with restrictions.
Conversion therapy in El Salvador is not banned.
Equal age of consent in El Salvador is equal.
LGBT Rights by Department
View the LGBT laws in each individual department of El Salvador.