- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (3-month deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in New South Wales is legal.
Since Jun 8, 1984
Same-sex marriage in New South Wales is legal.
Since Dec 9, 2017
Until Jul 1, 2010
Censorship of LGBT Issues in New South Wales is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in New South Wales is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in New South Wales is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in New South Wales is illegal.
Since Jan 1, 1983
LGBT employment discrimination in New South Wales is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since 1983
Federal law prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of "sexual orientation", "gender identity" and "intersex status". The relevant law is section 14 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.
LGBT housing discrimination in New South Wales is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Serving openly in military in New South Wales is legal.
Conversion therapy in New South Wales is not banned.
Equal age of consent in New South Wales is equal.
Since May 27, 2003