- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion polls in particular regions of Belarus have found that homophobic beliefs persist.
Belarus Surveys
Orthodox Christian Support for Church's Position of Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage
History
Homosexual activity in Belarus is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Belarus is banned.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Belarus is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Belarus is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
In Belarus, such permission shall issue a specially created interdepartmental commission on medical, psychological and social rehabilitation of persons with the syndrome of denial of sex. It is composed of 15 experts of the ministries of Health, Defense, Interior, Justice, Education. The Commission refers the patient to a mental health and psycho-sexological examination. A year later, after a thorough examination by psychiatrists, sexologists, urologists, gynecologists, endocrinologists and geneticists, the board makes a decision - to change this person or not.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Belarus is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Belarus is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Belarus is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Belarus is illegal.
Serving openly in military in Belarus is don't ask, don't tell.
Blood donations by MSMs in Belarus is legal.
Conversion therapy in Belarus is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Belarus is equal.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Belarus.
- Brestskaya voblasts
- Homyel'skaya voblasts
- Hrodzenskaya voblasts
- Mahilyowskaya voblasts
- Minskaya voblasts
- Vitsyebskaya voblasts
- Horad Minsk (City)