- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
Public Opinion
Public opinion in Louisiana appears to be somewhat divided on LGBTQ+ issues, as evidenced by recent studies.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 10 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Louisiana.
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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
Censorship of LGBT issues in Louisiana is state-enforced.
In 2024, House Bill 122 was passed and prohibited the discussion of anything relating to sexual orientation or gender identity to students.
Right to change legal gender in Louisiana is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Louisiana is restricted.
Additionally, a de facto exclusion was put in place for medicaid, banning coverage for GAC to all transgender individuals.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Louisiana is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Louisiana is sexual orientation only.
LGBT discrimination in Louisiana is varies by region.
LGBT employment discrimination in Louisiana is sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that “[A]llegations of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation necessarily state a claim of discrimination on the basis of sex”, and are barred by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This ruling applies at both the state and federal levels.
LGBT housing discrimination in Louisiana is varies by region.
Additionally, HUD's 2012 Equal Access Rule prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for housing programs, shelters and other HUD-funded providers.
Same-sex adoption in Louisiana is legal.
Second-parent adoption is not legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Louisiana is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Louisiana is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
On February 10th, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth filed in court a memo relating to President Trump’s executive order from the previous month.
From then until March 18th, 2025, The U.S. military prohibited transgender individuals from enlisting and ceased providing or supporting gender transition procedures for service members.
Blood donations by MSMs in Louisiana is legal.
Conversion therapy in Louisiana is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Louisiana is unknown.