- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- Ambiguous
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Democratic Republic of the Congo is legal.
Since Jan 30, 1940
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Democratic Republic of the Congo is ambiguous.
While no law specifically prohibits consensual same-sex sexual conduct between adults, individuals engaging in public displays of consensual same-sex sexual conduct, such as kissing, were sometimes subject to prosecution under public indecency provisions, which were rarely applied to opposite-sex couples. A local NGO reported authorities rarely took steps to investigate, prosecute, or punish officials who committed abuses against LGBTQI+ persons, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government.
Identifying as LGBTQI+ remained a cultural taboo. LGBTQI+ individuals were subjected to harassment, stigmatization, and violence, including "corrective" rape. Some religious leaders, radio broadcasts, and political organizations played a key role in supporting discrimination against LGBTQI+ individuals.
Right to change legal gender in Democratic Republic of the Congo is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Democratic Republic of the Congo is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Democratic Republic of the Congo is no protections.
Since Jun 30, 1960
LGBT employment discrimination in Democratic Republic of the Congo is no protections.
Since Jun 30, 1960
LGBT housing discrimination in Democratic Republic of the Congo is no protections.
Since Jun 30, 1960
Same-sex adoption in Democratic Republic of the Congo is single only.
Since Sep 18, 2017
Serving openly in military in Democratic Republic of the Congo is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Democratic Republic of the Congo is legal.
Conversion therapy in Democratic Republic of the Congo is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Democratic Republic of the Congo is equal.
Since Jan 1, 2006