- Homosexuality
- ⚢Unknown
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭Unknown
- Censorship
- Unknown
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- Unknown
- Hate Crime Protections
- Ambiguous
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Bathroom Access
- ✔ No explicit protections
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Erevan is unknown.
Male illegal, female legal under federal Armenia law
An article under which sodomy was punishable by imprisonment from 5 to 8 years appeared in the Soviet Criminal Code on March 7, 1934 - number 154-a: “Sexual intercourse between a man and a man (sodomy) - imprisonment for a term of three to five years. Sodomy committed with the use of violence or taking advantage of the dependent position of the victim - imprisonment for a term of five to eight years."
Current status
Unknown
Censorship of LGBT issues in Erevan is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Right to change legal gender in Erevan is legal, but requires surgery.
Current status
Since May 23, 2006
Legal, but requires surgery under federal Armenia law
Armenia's Law on Civil Status took effect in 2006 and provides for legal gender change if a medical organisation issues a document on such. This is usually granted if the individual undergoes gender reassignment surgery.
Legal, but requires surgery under federal Armenia law
Operating under the framework of the Soviet Union, legal gender recognition became possible under Resolution No. 1006 issued by the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Item 2, sub-item 't' of these provisions allowed for the correction of personal data in civil registry records due to a change of sex. Civil Registry (ZAGS) offices processed these changes based on medical certificates, strictly conditioning the amendment on the applicant having undergone surgical correction. This was formalized by the USSR Ministry of Health's Methodological Guidelines for the Change of Sex (No. 10-91) in August 1991. Following Armenian independence in 1991, this Soviet administrative practice continued to function as the active legal basis for gender marker changes until the national parliament explicitly legislated on the matter.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Erevan is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Hate crime protections in Erevan is ambiguous.
Current status
Since Jul 1, 2022
Ambiguous under federal Armenia law
Article 71: Circumstances aggravating criminal liability or punishment
1. Circumstances aggravating criminal responsibility or punishment are:
(…)
6) crimes committed motivated by hatred, intolerance or hostility based on racial, national, ethnic or social origin, religion, political or other views or other personal or social circumstances
1. Circumstances aggravating criminal responsibility or punishment are:
(…)
6) crimes committed motivated by hatred, intolerance or hostility based on racial, national, ethnic or social origin, religion, political or other views or other personal or social circumstances
LGBT discrimination in Erevan is no protections.
Current status
No protections under federal Armenia law
The constitution does not prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity
LGBT employment discrimination in Erevan is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in Erevan is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Intersex infant surgery in Erevan is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Serving openly in military in Erevan is don't ask, don't tell.
Current status
Don't Ask, Don't Tell under federal Armenia law
LGBTIAQ+ people have to endure the
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" status with according to the Helsinki Rights Committee in Armenia, in 2004, an internal defence ministry decree effectively bans gay men from serving in the armed forces. In practice, gays are marked as "mentally ill" and sent to a psychiatrist.
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" status with according to the Helsinki Rights Committee in Armenia, in 2004, an internal defence ministry decree effectively bans gay men from serving in the armed forces. In practice, gays are marked as "mentally ill" and sent to a psychiatrist.
Blood donations by MSMs in Erevan is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Bathroom access in Erevan is no explicit protections.
Current status
No explicit protections under federal Armenia law
In Armenia, there are no statutory bans, criminal codes, or civil penalties targeting transgender individuals for using sex-segregated facilities.
Equal age of consent in Erevan is equal.
Current status
Since Apr 18, 2003
Equal under federal Armenia law
The age of consent is the same for homosexual couples and heterosexual couples. It is set at age 16.
Female equal, male N/A under federal Armenia law
In Armenia, the age of consent have been decided to be 16 with male homosexuality still is criminalized at the time making female homosexuality legal and therefore have the same age of consent as heterosexuality.
Until 1961
Ambiguous under federal Armenia law
In Armenia, the age of consent was quite ambiguous because it did not used a fixed chronological age of consent but rather it use the biological attachment of "sexual maturity"
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