- 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 and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✔ Full ban
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in Portugal have shown mixed views towards LGBTQ+ rights and issues.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 7 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Portugal.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Censorship of LGBT issues in Portugal is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Portugal is legal, no restrictions.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Portugal is not legally recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Portugal is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Portugal is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Portugal is legal.
Serving openly in military in Portugal is legal.
Trans people aren't explicitly banned from joining the army, but due to discrimination and regulations that also apply to cis people, but more commonly affect trans people, they are unable to join.
Blood donations by MSMs in Portugal is legal.
Conversion therapy in Portugal is banned.
In 2023, Portugal's parliament passed a bill that includes a ban on conversion therapy, amongst other measures, but this needs to be passed by the President of the Republic before it becomes law.
In 2019, after an open letter by 250 psychologists to the the regulatory Ordem dos Psicólogos, the body affirmed that conversion therapy is malpractice and has no basis in science and is not justifiable.
Equal age of consent in Portugal is equal.
LGBT Rights by District
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Portugal.
- Viana do Castelo
- Vila Real
- Viseu
- Évora
- Região Autónoma da Madeira (Autonomous Region)
- Região Autónoma dos Açores (Autonomous Region)