- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Until -0001
History
Homosexual activity in Djibouti is legal.
Current status
Legal
Same-sex sexual activity is legal while publicly expression of sexual or gender identity is criminalized on moral ground laws.
Same-sex marriage in Djibouti is unrecognized.
Current status
Unrecognized
No laws in place for same sex marriage. Might be legalized?
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Djibouti is state-enforced.
Current status
State-enforced
There are no restrictions on LGBT content, but the authorities of Djibouti prosecute the public display of same-sex sexual conduct under laws prohibiting attacks on “good morals".
Right to change legal gender in Djibouti is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Legal gender recognition, by which a government allows individuals to change their gender identity marker on legal and identifying documents to bring them into alignment with their gender identity, is not available.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Djibouti is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT discrimination in Djibouti is no protections.
Current status
No protections
No discrimination protections under Djibouti.
LGBT employment discrimination in Djibouti is no protections.
Current status
No protections
No protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Djibouti is no protections.
Current status
No protections
Same-sex adoption in Djibouti is illegal.
Current status
Since Dec 23, 2017
Since Dec 23, 2017
Illegal
While there is no laws criminalizing same sex couples, we have considered it to be illegal becouse there was never a successful adoption by an LGBTQ personnel in Djibouti.
Serving openly in military in Djibouti is unknown.
Until -0001
Ambiguous
unknown. unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Blood donations by MSMs in Djibouti is ambiguous.
Current status
Since Sep 26, 2011
Since Sep 26, 2011
Ambiguous
Usually legal according to the American Red Cross, but not legal for LGBTQ people in Djibouti.
Conversion therapy in Djibouti is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Not banned for lgbtq personnel in Djibouti.
Equal age of consent in Djibouti is equal.
Current status
Equal
Age of consent is 18.
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Alternative names: Djibouti/Jibuti (local name)
