• Homosexuality
    ⚢
    ✔ Legal
  • Marriage
    ⚭
    ✔ Legal
  • Changing Gender
    ✔ Legal, surgery not required
  • Adoption
    ✔ Legal
  • Discrimination
    ✔ Illegal
  • Employment Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Housing Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Military
    ✔ Legal
  • Donating Blood
    ✔ Legal
  • Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
  • Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned

History

Homosexual activity in Portugal

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Current status
(since Sep 23, 1982)
Legal
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
igf.min-financas.pt/leggera…
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Same-sex marriage in Portugal

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Current status
(since May 31, 2010)
Legal
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
dre.pt/pdf1sdip/2010/05/105…
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Right to change legal gender in Portugal

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Mar 15, 2011–Jul 1, 2018
Legal, but requires surgery
Individuals in Portugal can legally change their gender and name on their birth certificate.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
dezanove.pt/152896.html
dre.pt/application/dir/pdf1…
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Current status
Legal, surgery not required
Changes pending. Missing non binary options on documents.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
nationalgeographic.com/maga…
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Same-sex adoption in Portugal

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Current status
(since Dec 18, 2015)
Legal
Now same sex adoption is possible for not only individuals but same sex couples.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
dn.pt/portugal/interior/vot…
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Until Dec 18, 2015
Ambiguous
Lesbian or gay couples cannot adopt.
A single gay or lesbian can adopt.
Co-adoption wasn't approved by the Parliament last March.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
Co-adoption: dezanove.pt/psd-e-cds-chumb…
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LGBT discrimination in Portugal

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Current status
(since Jul 24, 2004)
Illegal
Article 13 explicitly prohibits discriminations on the basis of sexual orientations
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
app.parlamento.pt/site_anti…

confcoconsteu.org/reports/r…
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LGBT employment discrimination in Portugal

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Current status
(since Jan 16, 2015)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Gender identity is now an explicit protected ground in the labour code.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
ilga-portugal.pt/noticias/645.php
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2003–Jan 16, 2015
Sexual orientation only
Sexual orientation was protected.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
stonewall.org.uk/documents/…
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LGBT housing discrimination in Portugal

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Current status
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
No
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Homosexuals serving openly in military in Portugal

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Current status
(since 1999)
Legal
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
stonewall.org.uk/documents/…
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Blood donations by MSMs in Portugal

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Current status
(since Apr 7, 2010)
Legal
In Portugal, blood donation have rules regarding sexual behavior but they are the same for homossexual people and heterossexual.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
diariodigital.sapo.pt/news.…
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Equal age of consent in Portugal

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Current status
(since 2007)
Equal
The age of consent in portal is 14 years of age for both homosexual and heterosexual sex.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/w…
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Conversion therapy in Portugal

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Current status
Not banned
Conversion therapy ban pending.
Details  ·  Accurate? Yes No
Sources:
No
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