- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal with restrictions
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Pernik is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Pernik is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Pernik is state-enforced.
During this time, discussions or expressions of LGBT-related topics were generally suppressed, and any attempt to advocate for LGBT rights could face censorship and persecution by the government. This was part of the broader censorship and control exerted by the communist regime over various aspects of society, including the media, literature, and public discourse.
Right to change legal gender in Pernik is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Pernik is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Pernik is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Pernik is sexual orientation only.
On July 28, 2023, the Bulgarian Parliament adopted amendments to the country’s Penal Code adding sexual orientation to the list of such characteristics. On August 3, 2023, the law was published in the State Gazette. Article 5(5) of Bulgaria’s Constitution states that normative acts take effect three days after promulgation unless otherwise specified; accordingly, because no alternate date was provided, the amendments took effect on August 7, 2023.
LGBT discrimination in Pernik is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Pernik is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Pernik is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Pernik is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Pernik is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Pernik is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Pernik is legal with restrictions.
Conversion therapy in Pernik is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Pernik is equal.