- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Alagoas is legal.
Brazil's 1988 Constitution further strengthened affirmative protections by prohibiting any form of discrimination. Since then courts have since affirmed this additionally applies to sexual orientation.
Same-sex marriage in Alagoas is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Alagoas is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Alagoas is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in Alagoas is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Alagoas is recognized.
Coordinator of the Itinerant Justice project, Emanuella Porangaba highlighted that the sentence will serve as a basis for future requests from non-binary people. “Fenix was the first, certainly not the last person to fall into this situation. The judiciary has already taken the first step and is open to accepting these fair and dignified claims that grant citizens the fullest citizenship, which until then this was mitigated”.
Hate crime protections in Alagoas is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Alagoas is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Alagoas is not banned.
In 2023, the National Health Conference suggested banning the practice but so far, no ban has been implemented. The National Health Conference helps formulate guidelines and proposals that will guide public health policies in the near future. These conferences provide guidance and shape new ideas for public policy.
Serving openly in military in Alagoas is legal.
People who are legally male at the age of 18 are obligated to serve, including trans men who have transitioned or trans women who haven't changed their legal gender yet. The latter can be dispensed once the change is made.
Blood donations by MSMs in Alagoas is legal.
Conversion therapy in Alagoas is banned.
Equal age of consent in Alagoas is equal.
According to the Brazilian Penal Code of 1940, the age of consent for sexual intercourse is the same for both heterosexual and homosexual couples: 14 years old.