- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
According to recent survey data, there appears to be strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan Surveys
Orthodox Christian Support for Church's Position of Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage
History
Same-sex marriage in Kazakhstan is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Kazakhstan is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Kazakhstan is legal, but requires surgery.
Since 2022
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kazakhstan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Kazakhstan is illegal in some contexts.
Since 2022
LGBT employment discrimination in Kazakhstan is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Kazakhstan is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Serving openly in military in Kazakhstan is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Since 2022
Blood donations by MSMs in Kazakhstan is legal.
Conversion therapy in Kazakhstan is not banned.
Since Aug 25, 1991
Equal age of consent in Kazakhstan is equal.
Since Jul 16, 1997
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Kazakhstan.
- Ongtüstik Qazaqstan oblysy
- Pavlodar oblysy
- Qaraghandy oblysy
- Qostanay oblysy
- Qyzylorda oblysy
- Shyghys Qazaqstan oblysy
- Soltüstik Qazaqstan oblysy
- Zhambyl oblysy
- Almaty (city)
- Astana (city)
- Bayqongyr (city)