- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized, same-sex marriage and civil unions banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Ambiguous
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Suggest Public Opinion Data
Until 2015
Public Opinion
Support for same-sex marriage (North and South America) ?
Ranked #21 out of 29 regions surveyed. (Source: AmericasBarometer, 2016-2017)
(81.4%) Disapprove
Approve (18.6%)
Acceptance of Gay People in Public Office (North and South America) ?
Ranked #19 out of 29 regions surveyed. (Source: AmericasBarometer, 2016-2017)
(65.8%) Disapprove
Approve (34.2%)
"Should society accept homosexuality?" (2013) ?
Ranked #22 out of 39 regions surveyed. (Source: Pew Research Center, June, 2013)
(62%) No
Yes (34%)
Perceived Acceptance of Gay People ?
Ranked #41 out of 119 regions surveyed. (Source: Gallup, 2013)
(50%) Not a good place
Good place (44%)
History
Homosexual activity in El Salvador is legal.
Current status
Since Jun 15, 1974
Since Jun 15, 1974
Legal
The penal code does not mention homosexuality explicitly and thus is assumed to be legal
Censorship of LGBT Issues in El Salvador is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In El Salvador, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in El Salvador is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
El Salvador does not legally recognize non-binary identities.
LGBT discrimination in El Salvador is illegal.
Current status
Since Apr 2018
Since Apr 2018
Illegal
In April 2018, the Government approved the Institutional Policy for the Care of the LGBT Population. The policy, written by the Government with the aid of LGBT activists, as well as the national police and public security officials, allows LGBT people to file legal complaints against people who discriminate against them. Claims of crimes, torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments against LGBT people will also be fully investigated by police forces. This was done with the aim of guaranteeing and protecting the rights of LGBT people.
Illegal in some contexts
In 2015, the Salvadoran Parliament passed a law adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the Criminal Code's hate crime provisions. The Code provides a penalty of between three and six years imprisonment for those who commit a crime based on the victim's race, ethnicity, political affiliation, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Until 2015
Illegal in some contexts
Discrimination is termed illegal by presidential decree in government offies, but it is not penalized.
LGBT employment discrimination in El Salvador is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Illegal to discriminate on govt. offices, by presidential decree, but not punishable
LGBT housing discrimination in El Salvador is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Blood donations by MSMs in El Salvador is legal.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2000
Since Jan 1, 2000
Legal
MSM can donate acording to law, but still exists discrimination in health system against them
Conversion therapy in El Salvador is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
Not legal, bu catholic religion the leader in El Salvador, promotes it
Equal age of consent in El Salvador is equal.
Current status
Since Jun 15, 1974
Since Jun 15, 1974
Equal
LGBT Rights by Department
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