• Homosexuality
    ⚢
    ✔ Legal
  • Marriage
    ⚭
    ✔ Legal
  • Changing Gender
    ✔ Legal, surgery not required
  • Adoption
    ✔ Legal
  • Discrimination
    ✔ Illegal
  • Housing Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Employment Discrimination
    Sexual orientation only
  • Military
    ✔ Legal
  • Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
  • Donating Blood
    ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
  • Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned

History

Homosexual activity in Austria

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Current status
(since Aug 16, 1971)
Legal
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
rklambda.at/dokumente/publi…
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Same-sex marriage in Austria

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Current status
(since Jan 1, 2019)
Legal
Same-sex marraige was legalized
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
google.com/search?q=austria…
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Jan 1, 2010–Dec 31, 2018
Civil unions
Civil Union was a recognized status
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
pinknews.co.uk/2009/12/10/a…
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Jan 1, 2010–Aug 8, 2018
Civil unions
Gay Marriage will become legal in January 2019. As well foreign same sex marriage is recognized.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
No
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Right to change legal gender in Austria

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Current status
(since Feb 27, 2009)
Legal, surgery not required
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
wien.gv.at/menschen/queer/t…
ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Vwg…
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1983–Feb 27, 2009
Legal, but requires surgery
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
wien.gv.at/queerwien/persand.htm
transx.at/Dokumente/TransX4…
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Same-sex adoption in Austria

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Current status
(since Jan 14, 2015)
Legal
Same sex couples can have the same right to adopt as different-sex couples
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
lgbtqnation.com/2015/01/aus…
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Jan 2013–Jan 14, 2015
Step-child adoption only
Only step child adoption can take place
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
derstandard.at/136936258149…
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LGBT discrimination in Austria

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Current status
(since 2004)
Illegal
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
bka.gv.at/DocView.axd?CobId=20681
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LGBT housing discrimination in Austria

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Current status
(since Jan 1, 2004)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
No
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LGBT employment discrimination in Austria

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Current status
(since 2004)
Sexual orientation only
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
old.ilga.org/Statehomophobi…
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Jan 1, 2004–Sep 6, 2017
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
No
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Homosexuals serving openly in military in Austria

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Current status
Legal
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
palmcenter.org/files/active…
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Equal age of consent in Austria

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Current status
(since Jun 24, 2002)
Equal
The age of consent between people with maximum 5 years of difference is 14. Sexual contact between coetaneous is never punishable.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Vfg…
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Blood donations by MSMs in Austria

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Jan 1, 2002–Sep 10, 2018
Banned (indefinite deferral)
One of the many countries were lgbt people cannot donate.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
No
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Current status
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
roteskreuz.at/blutspende/in…
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Conversion therapy in Austria

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Current status
Not banned
only banned in few places in Europe. Conversion therapy ban pending.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
No
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