- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unregistered cohabitation
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Gender identity only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Gender identity only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Varies by Region
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- Varies by Region
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in India have shown mixed views towards LGBTQ+ rights and issues.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 14 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited India.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Homosexual activity in India is legal.
Same-sex marriage in India is unregistered cohabitation.
Censorship of LGBT issues in India is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in India is legal, but requires surgery.
Under section 6 of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, a trans person may apply to be issued a certificate of identity that certifies that they are transgender (denoted as "Transgender"). Upon receiving this certificate, the applicants have the right to be recorded as transgender in all official documents.
Gender-affirming care in India is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in India is recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in India is gender identity only.
LGBT housing discrimination in India is gender identity only.
Same-sex adoption in India is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in India is varies by region.
Serving openly in military in India is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in India is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in India is varies by region.
Equal age of consent in India is equal.
LGBT Rights by State
View the LGBT laws in each individual state of India.
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chhattisgarh
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarākhand
- West Bengal
- Telangāna
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory)
- Chandigarh (Union Territory)
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Union Territory)
- Delhi (Union Territory)
- Lakshadweep (Union Territory)
- Pondicherry (Union Territory)
- Ladākh (Union Territory)