- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Foreign same-sex marriages recognized only
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- 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
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Ambiguous
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Antigua and Barbuda is legal.
Since Jul 5, 2022
Buggery
Article 12.
“(1) A person who commits buggery is guilty of an offence and
is liable on conviction to imprisonment -
(a) for life, if committed by an adult on a minor;
(b) for fteen years, if committed by an adult on another adult;
(c) for ve years, if committed by a minor.
(2) In this section “buggery” means sexual intercourse per
anum by a male person with a male person or by a male
person with a female person.”
Serious indecency
Article 15. “(1) A person who commits an act of serious
indecency on or towards another is guilty of an offence and is
liable on conviction to imprisonment -
(a) for ten years, if committed on or towards a minor under
sixteen years of age;
(b) for ve years, if committed on or towards a person sixteen
years of age or more,
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an act of serious indecency
committed in private between -
(a) a husband and his wife; or
(b) a male person and a female person each of whom is
sixteen years of age or more;
(3) An act of “serious indecency” is an act, other than sexual
intercourse (whether natural or unnatural), by a person
involving the use of genital organ for the purpose of arousing
or gratifying sexual desire.”
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Antigua and Barbuda is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Antigua and Barbuda is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Antigua and Barbuda is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Antigua and Barbuda is illegal.
Since Jul 5, 2022
"In giving a liberal and purposive interpretation to section 14(3) of the Constitution the reference to “sex” ought not to merely reference a physical gender. Such an approach would be too linear and restrictive. The reference to “sex” would necessarily encompass concepts such as gender identity, sexual character, and sexual orientation. It would be self-defeating to the constitutional provision if the notion of sex were to be separated from matters of sexual orientation and sexual identification since the concept of sex as a physical gender carries with it a perception of how people identify and are oriented even in those instances when the identification and orientation are stereotypical or traditional in nature."
LGBT housing discrimination in Antigua and Barbuda is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Until Jul 5, 2022
Same-sex adoption in Antigua and Barbuda is single only.
Serving openly in military in Antigua and Barbuda is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Antigua and Barbuda is legal.
Conversion therapy in Antigua and Barbuda is ambiguous.
LGBT Rights by Parish
View the LGBT laws in each individual parish of Antigua and Barbuda.
- Saint Peter
- Saint Philip
- Barbuda (Dependency)
- Redonda (Dependency)