- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal with restrictions
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent studies in Bulgaria indicate societal resistance to LGBTQ+ rights.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 7 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Bulgaria.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Homosexual activity in Bulgaria is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Bulgaria is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Bulgaria is state-enforced.
During this time, discussions or expressions of LGBT-related topics were generally suppressed, and any attempt to advocate for LGBT rights could face censorship and persecution by the government. This was part of the broader censorship and control exerted by the communist regime over various aspects of society, including the media, literature, and public discourse.
Right to change legal gender in Bulgaria is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Bulgaria is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Bulgaria is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Bulgaria is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Bulgaria is sexual orientation and gender identity.
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LGBT housing discrimination in Bulgaria is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Bulgaria is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Bulgaria is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Bulgaria is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Bulgaria is legal with restrictions.
Conversion therapy in Bulgaria is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Bulgaria is equal.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Bulgaria.