- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Civil unions
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
According to recent survey data available, societal resistance to LGBTQ+ rights in Montenegro is noticeable.
History
Homosexual activity in Montenegro is legal.
Since Jul 1, 1977
Article 186: for unnatural fornication between persons of the male sex, the perpetrator shall be punished with imprisonment for up to two years.
The 1959 amendment reduced the prison sentence by one year.
Paragraph 285: for unnatural fornication between persons, the perpetrator shall be punished with strict imprisonment, unless the act turns into a more serious crime.
Same-sex marriage in Montenegro is civil unions.
Since Jul 15, 2021
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Montenegro is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Montenegro is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Montenegro is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Montenegro is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Montenegro is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Aug 14, 2010
Same-sex adoption in Montenegro is single only.
Serving openly in military in Montenegro is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Montenegro is legal.
Conversion therapy in Montenegro is not banned.