- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Civil unions
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Adoption✖ Single only
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Employment DiscriminationSexual orientation only
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy✔ Banned
History
Current status
(since Oct 20, 2008)
(since Oct 20, 2008)
Civil unions
Although marriage is still defined as a union between a man and a woman, article 68 of the 2008 constitution also state:
The stable and monogamous union between two persons without any other marriage ties who have a common-law home, for the lapse of time and under the conditions and circumstances provided for by law, shall enjoy the same rights and obligations of those families bound by formal marriage ties.
The stable and monogamous union between two persons without any other marriage ties who have a common-law home, for the lapse of time and under the conditions and circumstances provided for by law, shall enjoy the same rights and obligations of those families bound by formal marriage ties.
Current status
(since Jun 5, 1998)
(since Jun 5, 1998)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under article 11.2
Current status
(since Nov 27, 1997)
(since Nov 27, 1997)
Equal
The age of consent in Ecuador is 14, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. (Penal Code, Art 512)
Current status
(since Jan 5, 2014)
(since Jan 5, 2014)
Banned
government there just started cracking down.