- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✔ Legal
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- MilitaryN/A
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Current status
(since Aug 12, 1940)
(since Aug 12, 1940)
Legal
The Icelandic parliament decriminalizes homosexuality, removes the provision of the law that made homosexuality illegal.
Current status
(since Jun 27, 2010)
(since Jun 27, 2010)
Legal
Current status
(since Jun 27, 2006)
(since Jun 27, 2006)
Legal
Current status
(since Jan 1, 1996)
(since Jan 1, 1996)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under Icelandic Criminal Code.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 1996)
(since Jan 1, 1996)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under Icelandic Law.
Current status
N/A
Iceland does not have a military.
Current status
Equal
The age of consent in Iceland is 15 for both male-male, female-female, and male-female couples.
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