- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (up to life in prison as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Luapula is illegal (up to life in prison as punishment).
Same-sex marriage in Luapula is banned.
In 2010, Zambia passed another clause in its constitution that explicitly forbids marriage between people of the same sex.
The Anti-Gender-Based Violence Act (2011) states that “domestic relationship ” means "a relationship, between a victim and a respondent in any of the following ways: (b) the victim cohabits with the respondent in a relationship in the nature of a marriage notwithstanding that they are not married, were not married to each other or could not or cannot be married to each other." This definition includes people in a same-sex relationship.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Luapula is imprisonment as punishment.
This provision was used as a legal basis to arrest and prosecute Paul Kasonkomona who, in 2013, appeared on a television show arguing that the rights of sexual minorities should be recognized so that the HIV epidemic could be dealt with effectively. He was arrested by the authorities after his statement and was acquitted two years later.
Furthermore, in 2019, the Minister of Religious Affairs ordered the cancellation of a television program for allegedly "promoting homosexuality".
Right to change legal gender in Luapula is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Luapula is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Luapula is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Luapula is illegal in some contexts.
-Broadcasting Standard Operating Procedure issued by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA).
-Professional Code of Ethics and Discipline (2014) isued by the Health Professions Council of Zambia.
-Information & Communication Technology Standards and Guidelines (2014)
issued by the Ministry of Health.
-National Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy (2015).
-Zambia Consolidated Guidelines for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection (2022) issued by the Ministry of Health.
-Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan for the Energy Sector (2022).
LGBT employment discrimination in Luapula is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Luapula is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Luapula is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Luapula is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Luapula is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Luapula is legal.
Conversion therapy in Luapula is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Luapula is n/a.