- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- Ambiguous
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in Bahrain have revealed a prevalence of resistance towards LGBTQ+ rights, but please note that is based on a small number of surveys available in Bahrain.
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Views on Homosexuality
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Homosexual activity in Bahrain is legal.
Since Mar 20, 1976
However there has been documented cases of arrests being made towards homosexual people on virtue of them being homosexuals
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Bahrain is ambiguous.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Bahrain is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Bahrain is no protections.
Since Mar 20, 1976
LGBT employment discrimination in Bahrain is no protections.
Since Mar 20, 1976
LGBT housing discrimination in Bahrain is no protections.
Since Mar 20, 1976
Same-sex adoption in Bahrain is illegal.
Serving openly in military in Bahrain is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Bahrain is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Bahrain is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Bahrain is equal.
Since Jan 1, 1976
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