- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion polls in Cuba have found that acceptance for LGBTQ+ individuals is prevalent.
Cuba Surveys
History
Homosexual activity in Cuba is legal.
Since 1979
Until 1979
Same-sex marriage in Cuba is legal.
Since Sep 26, 2022
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Cuba is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Cuba is legal, but requires surgery.
Since 2008
Gender affirming surgery and hormonal treatment are provided and covered by the national health system since 2008 (Resolution No. 126).
Since 2022, transgender people can change their name through self-determination. Instruction #1 of 2022 of the Ministry of Justice repealed Instruction #1 of 2012 that made the name change for trans people subject to a change of sex, following genital adjustment surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Cuba is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Cuba is illegal.
Since 2019
LGBT employment discrimination in Cuba is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Jan 1, 2013
LGBT housing discrimination in Cuba is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Dec 21, 2013
Same-sex adoption in Cuba is legal.
Since Sep 26, 2022
Blood donations by MSMs in Cuba is legal.
Since Jan 1, 1979
Conversion therapy in Cuba is not banned.
Since Jan 1, 2013
Equal age of consent in Cuba is equal.
Since Jan 1, 1979
LGBT Rights by province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Cuba.
- Pinar del Río
- Sancti Spíritus
- Santiago de Cuba
- Villa Clara
- Isla de la Juventud (special municipality)