West is governed by federal Cameroon law. Learn more
- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in West is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Current status
Since Nov 12, 1967
Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
Up to 5 years imprisonment and/or 200,000 franc fine.
Same-sex marriage in West is banned.
Current status
Since Nov 12, 1967
Banned
Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in West is state-enforced.
Current status
Since 2016
State-enforced
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 West is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Gender marker change is not possible in Cameroon. Transgender and gender diverse people are de facto criminalised.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in West is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
The option of identifying as “non-binary/intersex/gender non-conforming” is not available.
LGBT discrimination in West is no protections.
Current status
Since Jun 2, 1972
No protections
LGBT employment discrimination in West is no protections.
Current status
Since Jun 2, 1972
No protections
No protections because homosexuality is still illegal.
LGBT housing discrimination in West is no protections.
Current status
Since Jun 2, 1972
No protections
Homosexuality is illegal there.
Same-sex adoption in West is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
No laws in place for same sex couples.
Serving openly in military in West is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Homosexuality is currently illegal.
Conversion therapy in West is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
According to the ILGA World, there's no ban on conversion therapy in Cameroon.
Equal age of consent in West is n/a.
Current status
N/A
Homosexuality is illegal.
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