- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Oman is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Since Feb 16, 1974
Article 223, "Homosexual and Lesbian Intercourses" states: "Any one who commits erotic acts with a person of the same sex shall be sentenced to imprisonment from six months to three years. The suspects of homosexual or lesbian intercourse shall be prosecuted without a prior complaint, if the act results in a public scandal. The suspects of lesbian intercourse among ascendants, descendants or sisters shall only be prosecuted upon a complaint from a relative or a relative by marriage forth-degree removed."
Same-sex marriage in Oman is not legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Oman is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Oman is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Oman is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Oman is no protections.
Since Nov 6, 1996
LGBT housing discrimination in Oman is no protections.
Since Nov 6, 1996
Serving openly in military in Oman is ambiguous.
Blood donations by MSMs in Oman is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Oman is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Oman is n/a.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Oman.
- Al Buraymi (Governorate)
- Masqat (Governorate)
- Musandam (Governorate)
- Z̧ufār (governorate)