- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- 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
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in Portugal have shown mixed views towards LGBTQ+ rights and issues.
History
Homosexual activity in Portugal is legal.
Since Sep 23, 1982
Same-sex marriage in Portugal is legal.
Since May 31, 2010
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Portugal is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Portugal is legal, surgery not required.
Since Aug 8, 2018
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Portugal is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Portugal is illegal.
Since Jul 24, 2004
LGBT employment discrimination in Portugal is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Jan 16, 2015
LGBT housing discrimination in Portugal is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Portugal is legal.
Since Mar 1, 2016
Serving openly in military in Portugal is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Since 1999
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.
Since Apr 7, 2010
Conversion therapy in Portugal is not banned.
Since Jan 11, 2019
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.
Since 2007
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)