- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- Unknown
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- Ambiguous
- Age of Consent
- ✖ Unequal
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History
Homosexual activity in Libya is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Current status
Since Nov 18, 1953
Since Nov 18, 1953
Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
Article 410 of the penal code states that Indecent same sex intercourse is punishable from 1 to 4 years.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Libya is imprisonment as punishment.
Current status
Imprisonment as punishment
Under extensive Public morality laws or laws contrary to the Sharia .
Right to change legal gender in Libya is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Libya is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT discrimination in Libya is no protections.
Current status
Since Oct 7, 1951
Since Oct 7, 1951
No protections
LGBT housing discrimination in Libya is no protections.
Current status
Since Oct 7, 1951
Since Oct 7, 1951
No protections
Homosexuality is illegal there.
Same-sex adoption in Libya is single only.
Current status
Since Dec 29, 2017
Since Dec 29, 2017
Single only
Homosexuality is still illegal there. No laws in place for same sex couples.
Blood donations by MSMs in Libya is banned (indefinite deferral).
Current status
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Nope.
Conversion therapy in Libya is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
Unknown.
Equal age of consent in Libya is unequal.
Current status
Unequal
Homosexuality is illegal.
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