- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- 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
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Luxembourg is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Luxembourg is no censorship.
Gender-affirming care in Luxembourg is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Luxembourg is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Luxembourg is sexual orientation and gender identity.
(1)Any person who commits an act classified as a felony or misdemeanour on account of one or more of the factors referred to in article 454 may be sentenced to twice the maximum penalty of deprivation of liberty and the fine imposed by law against that crime or misdemeanour, within the limits of articles 8, 9 and 15, 16 and 36.
The provision of the first paragraph shall not apply to an act classified as a felony or misdemeanour committed on account of one or more of the elements referred to in article 454, in respect of which that element or elements is the constituent element of the offence.
(2)Any person who commits an act classified as an offence by reason of one or more of the elements referred to in article 454 may be sentenced to twice the maximum fine imposed by law against that offence, within the limits of article 26.
Article 454 (L. of 20 July 2018) provides for the following grounds origin, skin colour, sex, sexual orientation, sex change, gender identity, family status, age, state of health, disability, morals, political or philosophical opinions, trade union activities, membership or non-membership, real or supposed, of a particular ethnic group, nation, race or religion.
LGBT discrimination in Luxembourg is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Luxembourg is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Luxembourg is sexual orientation only.
Intersex infant surgery in Luxembourg is not banned.
In June 2021, the possibility of drafting legislation to ban medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children began to be discussed by an "inter-ministerial working group". However, in August 2023, it was declared by the Minister of Health that the task of drafting such legislation would have to fall to the next government, given that the working group had not yet agreed on the scope of the ban.
Serving openly in military in Luxembourg is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Luxembourg is banned (1-year deferral).
Conversion therapy in Luxembourg is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Luxembourg is equal.
LGBT Rights by District
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Luxembourg.