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| Region | Angola |
| Issue | Serving openly in military |
| Status | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned |
| Start Date | Feb 9, 2021 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | On 9 February 2021, Angola’s new Penal Code took effect, decriminalizing consensual same-sex conduct and leaving no known legal or military-specific ban on lesbian, gay, and bisexual people serving in the Angolan Armed Forces. For transgender people in the Angolan Armed Forces, service in one’s affirmed gender is best classified as de facto barred, because there is no clear legal gender-recognition procedure, no explicit gender-identity military protection, and no known armed-forces policy allowing service in one’s affirmed gender. |
| Sources | https://angolex.com/paginas/leis/lei-de-defesa-nacional-e-das-forcas-armadas.html https://www.chr.up.ac.za/news-archive/2021/2392-press-statement-centre-for-human-rights-commends-angola-as-it-joins-other-african-countries-in-decriminalising-consensual-same-sex-between-adults |
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| Value | Legal | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned |
| Start Date | Jan 24, 2019 | Feb 9, 2021 |
| Description | There is no known ban or restriction on LGBTIQ+ people serving in the military of Angola. | On 9 February 2021, Angola’s new Penal Code took effect, decriminalizing consensual same-sex conduct and leaving no known legal or military-specific ban on lesbian, gay, and bisexual people serving in the Angolan Armed Forces. For transgender people in the Angolan Armed Forces, service in one’s affirmed gender is best classified as de facto barred, because there is no clear legal gender-recognition procedure, no explicit gender-identity military protection, and no known armed-forces policy allowing service in one’s affirmed gender. |
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| Sources | https://angolex.com/paginas/leis/lei-de-defesa-nacional-e-das-forcas-armadas.html https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2019/06/angola-lgbtq/ | https://angolex.com/paginas/leis/lei-de-defesa-nacional-e-das-forcas-armadas.html https://www.chr.up.ac.za/news-archive/2021/2392-press-statement-centre-for-human-rights-commends-angola-as-it-joins-other-african-countries-in-decriminalising-consensual-same-sex-between-adults |
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edited by DaisyGeekyTrans. Adding start date.
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| Start Date | (unknown) | Jan 24, 2019 |
| Sources | https://angolex.com/paginas/leis/lei-de-defesa-nacional-e-das-forcas-armadas.html | https://angolex.com/paginas/leis/lei-de-defesa-nacional-e-das-forcas-armadas.html https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2019/06/angola-lgbtq/ |
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edited by DaisyGeekyTrans. Wrong country oof!
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| Description | There is no known ban or restriction on LGBTIQ+ people serving in the military of Gabon. | There is no known ban or restriction on LGBTIQ+ people serving in the military of Angola. |
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edited by DaisyGeekyTrans. Fixing the status.
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| Value | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned | Legal |
| Description | There no ban on service and with discrimination protections it makes it easy to serve. Like All other African countries, Angola doesn’t allow trans service | There is no known ban or restriction on LGBTIQ+ people serving in the military of Gabon. |
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| Sources | https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/countries-that-allow-transgender-members-in-the-military-1.4222205 | https://angolex.com/paginas/leis/lei-de-defesa-nacional-e-das-forcas-armadas.html |
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edited by Canadianstudent03. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/countries-that-allow-transgender-members-in-the-military-1.4222205
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| Value | Legal | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned |
| Description | There no ban on service and with discrimination protections it makes it easy to serve. | There no ban on service and with discrimination protections it makes it easy to serve. Like All other African countries, Angola doesn’t allow trans service |
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| Sources | https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/countries-that-allow-transgender-members-in-the-military-1.4222205 | |
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| Description | No | There no ban on service and with discrimination protections it makes it easy to serve. |
| Sources | No |
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| Value | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned | Legal |
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| Value | Illegal | Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned |