LGBT Rights in Luxembourg

Homosexuality: ⚢
✔ Legal
Gay Marriage: ⚭
✔ Legal
Censorship: ✔ No censorship
Changing Gender: ✔ Legal, no restrictions
Gender-Affirming Care: ✔ Legal
Non-Binary Gender Recognition: ✖ Not legally recognized
Discrimination: ✔ Illegal
Employment Discrimination: ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
Housing Discrimination: ✖ Sexual orientation only
Adoption: ✔ Legal
Intersex Infant Surgery: ✖ Not banned
Military: ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
Donating Blood: ✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
Conversion Therapy: ✖ Not banned
Age of Consent: ✔ Equal

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Public Opinion

Suggest Public Opinion Data

Public opinion surveys in Luxembourg have pointed to a varied attitude towards LGBTQ+ individuals.

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Percentage of the LBGTIQ population who have experienced a conversion practice (EU) (2023)

Ranked #1 of 30 regions

Question: Have you experienced any of the interventions to change your sexual orientation and/or gender identity including: intervention by family members; prayer, religious ritual or religious counselling; psychological or psychiatric treatment; medication; physical violence (such as beatings); sexual violence; verbal abuse or humiliation; other?

Source: FRA - EU Agency for fundamental rights, June-Avgust 2023

Yes

21%

27.7%

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Comfort with having the highest elected political position be gay, lesbian or bisexual (EU) (2015)

Ranked #8 of 28 regions

Question: And using a scale from 1 to 10, please tell me how you would feel having a person from each of the following groups in the highest elected political position in (OUR COUNTRY). '1' means that you would feel "not at all comfortable" and '10' that you would feel totally comfortable". A gay, lesbian, or bisexual person

Source: Eurobarometer, May 30th to June 8th 2015

Total Uncomfortable (1-4)

28.1%

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Total Comfortable (7-10)

62%

46.3%

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Comfort working with a gay, lesbian, or bisexual colleague (EU) (2015)

Ranked #10 of 28 regions

Question: Regardless of whether you are actually working or not, please tell me, using a scale from 1 to 10, how comfortable you would feel if one of your colleagues at work belonged to each of the following groups? '1' means that you would feel "not at all comfortable" and '10' that you would feel "totally comfortable".A gay, lesbian or bisexual person?

Source: Eurobarometer, May 30th to June 8th 2015

Total Uncomfortable (1-4)

18.2%

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Total Comfortable (7-10)

66%

56.9%

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History

Homosexual activity in Luxembourg

Homosexual activity in Luxembourg is legal.

Current status

Since 1795

Legal

Homosexuality was legalised with the use of a Napoleonic penal code in 1795.

LGBT Rights in Luxembourg

Public Opinion

Perceptions of local area as a "good place" for gay and lesbian people (2023)

Hide being LGBTIQ at work 'often’ or ‘always' (EU) (2023)

Percentage of the LBGTIQ population who have experienced a conversion practice (EU) (2023)

Perceived prevalence of discrimination against sexual orientation (European Union) (2019)

Perceived prevalence of discrimination against transgender people (European Union) (2019)

Acceptance of same-sex relationships (European Union) (2019)

Support for transgender people changing legal gender (European Union) (2019)

Perceived widespread discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (2015)

Perceived widespread discrimination on the basis of gender identity (2015)

Diversity is sufficiently reflected in the media, in terms of sexual orientation (2015)

Diversity is sufficiently reflected in the media, in terms of gender identity (2015)

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people should have the same rights as heterosexual people (EU) (2015)

There is nothing wrong in a sexual relationship between two persons of the same sex (EU) (2015)

Support for same-sex marriage (EU) (2015)

Comfort with having the highest elected political position be gay, lesbian or bisexual (EU) (2015)

Comfort working with a gay, lesbian, or bisexual colleague (EU) (2015)

Perceptions of local area as a "good place" for gay and lesbian people (2013)

Support for same-sex marriage in Europe (2006)

Support for gay adoption (2006)

Support for the right of gay and lesbian people to live freely (2004)

Support for the right of gay and lesbian people to live freely (2002)

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Homosexual activity in Luxembourg

Same-sex marriage in Luxembourg

Censorship of LGBT issues in Luxembourg

Right to change legal gender in Luxembourg

Gender-affirming care in Luxembourg

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Luxembourg

LGBT discrimination in Luxembourg

LGBT employment discrimination in Luxembourg

LGBT housing discrimination in Luxembourg

Same-sex adoption in Luxembourg

Intersex infant surgery in Luxembourg

Serving openly in military in Luxembourg

Blood donations by MSMs in Luxembourg

Conversion therapy in Luxembourg

Equal age of consent in Luxembourg

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