- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Discrimination
- Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
Public Opinion
Views on same-sex marriage or other legal recognition
Views on same-sex couples' right to adopt
Acceptance of homosexuals as neighbors
Question: "On this list are various groups of people. Could you please mention any that you would not like to have as neighbors?"
Justifiability of homosexuality
Question: "Please tell me for each of the following statements whether you think it can always be justified, never be justified, or something in between."
Opinion on same-sex couples as parents
Question: "Homosexual couples are as good parents as other couples"
"Should society accept homosexuality?" (2019)
Question: "Should society accept homosexuality?"
"Should society accept homosexuality?" (2013)
Question: "Should society accept homosexuality?"
By The Numbers
History
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Brazil is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Brazil is legal, surgery not required.
Since Mar 1, 2018
LGBT discrimination in Brazil is illegal in some contexts.
Since Oct 5, 1988
LGBT housing discrimination in Brazil is varies by region.
Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Paraíba 2003
- São Paulo 2001
- Acre
- Alagoas
- Amapá
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Espírito Santo
- Goiás
- Maranhão
- Mato Grosso
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Minas Gerais
- Paraná
- Pará
- Pernambuco
- Piauí
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Norte
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Rondônia
- Roraima
- Santa Catarina
- Sergipe
Sexual orientation only
No protections
Homosexuals serving openly in military in Brazil is legal.
Since Aug 2005
Same-sex adoption in Brazil is legal.
Since 2000
Equal age of consent in Brazil is equal.
Since Dec 7, 1940
Conversion therapy in Brazil is banned.
Since 1999
LGBT Rights by State
View the LGBT laws in each individual state of Brazil.
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