- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
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Same-sex marriage in Cameroon is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Cameroon is imprisonment as punishment.
Section 264 of the Penal Code (2016) criminalises the public utterance of any “immoral speech” and the drawing of the public’s attention to any “occasion of immorality”. In light of the criminalisation of same-sex intimacy, a legal scholar has suggested that a publicly uttered speech advocating “unnatural sexual indulgence” would be considered “immoral”.
Right to change legal gender in Cameroon is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Cameroon is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Cameroon is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Cameroon is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Cameroon is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Cameroon is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Cameroon is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Cameroon is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Cameroon is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Cameroon is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Cameroon is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Cameroon is n/a.
LGBT Rights by Region
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Equality Rank
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#181 Burundi9
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#182 Malawi9
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#183 Mali8
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#184 Cameroon8
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#185 South Sudan7
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#186 Qatar7
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#187 Nigeria6
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