- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✖ Unequal
Public Opinion
Research in attittudes towards LGBTQ+ issues in Republic of the Congo have identified a strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting underlying homophobic sentiments.
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Homosexual activity in Republic of the Congo is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Republic of the Congo is banned.
Section II. Marriage. Article 127. - Definition. "Marriage is the public act by which a man and a woman establish between them a legal and lasting union, the conditions of formation, effects and dissolution of which are determined by this Code."
Censorship of LGBT issues in Republic of the Congo is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Republic of the Congo is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Republic of the Congo is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Republic of the Congo is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Republic of the Congo is illegal in some contexts.
Article 19 of Law No. 27-2020 on the Fight Against Cybercrime, reads "Anyone who, except in the cases provided for by law, places or stores on a computer medium or memory, without the express consent of the person concerned, personal data revealing, directly or indirectly, the person's ethnic origin, political, philosophical, or religious opinions, or trade union membership, or relating to the person's health or sexual orientation, shall be punished by imprisonment of at least one year to a maximum of five years and a fine of one million to ten million CFA francs, or both."
Law No. 29-2019 on the Protection of Personal Data protects a person's sexual life as sensitive and personal data (Articles 4, 14 and 40).
Decree No. 2025-66 relating to the Personal data of Air passengers expressly protects "sexual orientation" (Articles 8, 10 and 15).
LGBT employment discrimination in Republic of the Congo is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Republic of the Congo is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Republic of the Congo is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Republic of the Congo is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Republic of the Congo is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Republic of the Congo is legal.
Conversion therapy in Republic of the Congo is not banned.
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