- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Research in attittudes towards LGBTQ+ issues in Georgia have identified a strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting underlying homophobic sentiments.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 10 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Georgia.
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Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
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Same-sex marriage in Georgia is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Georgia is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Georgia is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Georgia is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Georgia is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Georgia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Commission of crime on the basis of race, skin, colour, language, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, religion, political or other views, disability, citizenship, national, ethnic or social affiliation, origin, property or birth status, place of residence or other signs of discrimination with the reason of intolerance shall be an aggravating factor for liability for all respective crimes.
Commission of crime by one family member against another family member, against a helpless person, a minor or in his/her presence, with the extreme cruelty, with the use of a weapon or under the threat of using a weapon, by abusing the official position shall be an aggravating factor for liability for all respective crimes.
When imposing a fixed term imprisonment for a crime committed with an aggravating factor under paragraph 1 or 2 of this article, the term of a sentence to be served shall exceed, at least by one year, the minimum term of sentence provided for the committed crime under the respective article or part of an article of this Code.
If an article or part of an article of the Special Part of this Code refers to a factor under paragraph 1 or 2 of this article as to an element qualifying the crime, and if there are grounds under Article 55 or 63(1) of this Code, the procedure under paragraph 1 of this article shall not be taken into consideration when imposing a sentence.
LGBT discrimination in Georgia is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Georgia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
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LGBT housing discrimination in Georgia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Same-sex adoption in Georgia is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Georgia is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Georgia is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Georgia is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Georgia is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Georgia is equal.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Georgia.
- Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
- Samtskhe-Javakheti
- Shida Kartli
- Abkhazia (Autonomous Republic)
- Ajaria (Autonomous Republic)
- Tbilisi (City)