- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✔ Full ban
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent studies in Greece show a discernible level of opposition to LGBTQ+ rights among the population.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 14 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Greece.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
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History
Homosexual activity in Greece is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Greece is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Greece is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Greece is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in Greece is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Greece is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Greece is illegal.
law, extending the prohibition of discrimination to social protection, social benefits, education and access to the availability and provision of goods and services protections (including housing), enshrining full legal coverage against discrimination.
LGBT employment discrimination in Greece is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Greece is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Greece is legal.
Serving openly in military in Greece is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Greece is legal.
Conversion therapy in Greece is banned.
The amendment, however, does not include adults who, as stated in Parliament, can undergo conversion therapy with their consent. There is also no mention of people practicing these therapies other than specialists, leaving a legal loophole for spiritual leaders and priests. The LGBT+ organizations protested and demanded the inclusion of all the above
At the same time, the provision prohibits professionals from inviting, promoting or advertising conversion practices performed by themselves or other third parties, professionals or not.
Violation of the law in addition to the prescribed disciplinary and administrative sanctions, will be punished with imprisonment and a fine, while the repeated commission of the above act constitutes an aggravating circumstance.
Today, while some psychologists continue to use therapies such as disgust, the most commonly used techniques include a variety of behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalytic, and other practices that seek to change or reduce a person's same-sex attraction or gender identity. Lesser known but still active practices are beatings, sexual violence - even rape -, isolation, deprivation of food, electroshock, administration of drugs and other drugs, psychological violence, as well as exorcisms or other sessions.
The church is also promoting these therapies through the church-funded omofylofilia.gr site.
Equal age of consent in Greece is equal.
LGBT Rights by Administrative Regions
View the LGBT laws in each individual administrative regions of Greece.
- Anatoliki Makedonia kai Thraki
- Attiki
- Dytiki Ellada
- Dytiki Makedonia
- Ionia Nisia
- Ipeiros
- Kentriki Makedonia
- Kriti
- Notio Aigaio
- Peloponnisos
- Sterea Ellada
- Thessalia
- Voreio Aigaio
- Agio Oros (Self-Governed Part)