LGBT Rights in Romania

Homosexuality: ⚢
✔ Legal
Gay Marriage: ⚭
✖ Banned
Censorship: ✔ No censorship
Changing Gender: ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
Gender-Affirming Care: ✔ Legal
Non-Binary Gender Recognition: ✖ Not legally recognized
Discrimination: ✖ Illegal in some contexts
Employment Discrimination: ✖ Sexual orientation only
Housing Discrimination: ✖ Sexual orientation only
Adoption: ✖ Single only
Intersex Infant Surgery: ✖ Not banned
Military: ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
Donating Blood: ✔ Legal
Conversion Therapy: ✖ Not banned
Age of Consent: ✔ Equal

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Public Opinion

Suggest Public Opinion Data

Recent studies in Romania have revealed a prevalence of resistance towards LGBTQ+ rights.

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Percentage of the LBGTIQ population who have experienced a conversion practice (EU) (2023)

Ranked #1 of 30 regions

Question: Have you experienced any of the interventions to change your sexual orientation and/or gender identity including: intervention by family members; prayer, religious ritual or religious counselling; psychological or psychiatric treatment; medication; physical violence (such as beatings); sexual violence; verbal abuse or humiliation; other?

Source: FRA - EU Agency for fundamental rights, June-Avgust 2023

Yes

25%

27.7%

study avg.

Comfort with having the highest elected political position be gay, lesbian or bisexual (EU) (2015)

Ranked #27 of 28 regions

Question: And using a scale from 1 to 10, please tell me how you would feel having a person from each of the following groups in the highest elected political position in (OUR COUNTRY). '1' means that you would feel "not at all comfortable" and '10' that you would feel totally comfortable". A gay, lesbian, or bisexual person

Source: Eurobarometer, May 30th to June 8th 2015

Total Uncomfortable (1-4)

59%

28.1%

study avg.

Total Comfortable (7-10)

15%

46.3%

study avg.

Comfort working with a gay, lesbian, or bisexual colleague (EU) (2015)

Ranked #28 of 28 regions

Question: Regardless of whether you are actually working or not, please tell me, using a scale from 1 to 10, how comfortable you would feel if one of your colleagues at work belonged to each of the following groups? '1' means that you would feel "not at all comfortable" and '10' that you would feel "totally comfortable".A gay, lesbian or bisexual person?

Source: Eurobarometer, May 30th to June 8th 2015

Total Uncomfortable (1-4)

42%

18.2%

study avg.

Total Comfortable (7-10)

27%

56.9%

study avg.

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Orthodox Christian Support for Church's Position of Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage

(Pew Research Center, 2017)

78%

Support

19%

Oppose

Perception of LGBTQ+ People

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Survey results from 23 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Romania.

Overall
Overall

Perceived Safety*
Feel safe being open
Absence of verbal harassment
Absence of threats and violence
*Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.

Equal Treatment
Treatment by peers
Treatment by family
Treatment at work
Treatment at school
Treatment by general public
Treatment by businesses
Treatment by law enforcement
Treatment by religious groups

Visibility & Representation
Inclusion in education
Representation in entertainment
Representation in news
Political support
Out public figures

Culture
Pride/events
Nightlife
Dating life
Interest groups and clubs

Services
Health and wellness
Gender-affirming care
Support and social services
Advocacy and legal

History

Homosexual activity in Romania

Homosexual activity in Romania is legal.

Current status

Since 2001

Legal

Before decriminalisation, enforcement of the law was reportedly rare and in 2001 Romania fully decriminalised homosexuality.

LGBT Rights in Romania

Public Opinion

Perceptions of local area as a "good place" for gay and lesbian people (2024)

Perceptions of local area as a "good place" for gay and lesbian people (2023)

Support for same-sex adoption (2023)

Support for same-sex marriage or legal recognition (2023)

Views about same-sex couples' parenting (2023)

Perceived prevalence of transgender discrimination (2023)

Support for transgender discrimination protection (2023)

Support for teens’ access to gender-affirming care (2023)

Support for trans access to facilities matching gender identity (2023)

Support for non-binary gender option on official documents (2023)

Support for insurance coverage of gender transition costs (2023)

Hide being LGBTIQ at work 'often’ or ‘always' (EU) (2023)

Percentage of the LBGTIQ population who have experienced a conversion practice (EU) (2023)

Belief that LGBTI+ is “an immoral and decadent ideology” (2023)

Acceptance of LGBTI+ people’s rights (2023)

Justifiability of homosexuality (2022)

Acceptance of homosexuals as neighbors (2022)

Opinion on same-sex couples as parents (2020)

Acceptance of same-sex relationships (European Union) (2019)

Perceived prevalence of discrimination against sexual orientation (European Union) (2019)

Perceived prevalence of discrimination against transgender people (European Union) (2019)

Support for transgender people changing legal gender (European Union) (2019)

Acceptance of having a close gay family member (2018)

Support for same-sex marriage in Central and Eastern Europe (2016)

"Should society accept homosexuality?" (Eastern/Central Europe) (2016)

Perceived widespread discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (2015)

Perceived widespread discrimination on the basis of gender identity (2015)

Diversity is sufficiently reflected in the media, in terms of sexual orientation (2015)

Diversity is sufficiently reflected in the media, in terms of gender identity (2015)

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people should have the same rights as heterosexual people (EU) (2015)

There is nothing wrong in a sexual relationship between two persons of the same sex (EU) (2015)

Support for same-sex marriage (EU) (2015)

Comfort with having the highest elected political position be gay, lesbian or bisexual (EU) (2015)

Comfort working with a gay, lesbian, or bisexual colleague (EU) (2015)

Justifiability of homosexuality (2014)

Acceptance of homosexuals as neighbors (2014)

Perceptions of local area as a "good place" for gay and lesbian people (2013)

Justifiability of homosexuality (2009)

Acceptance of homosexuals as neighbors (2009)

Support for the right of gay and lesbian people to live freely (2008)

Perceptions of local area as a "good place" for gay and lesbian people to live (2007)

Support for same-sex marriage in Europe (2006)

Support for gay adoption (2006)

Acceptance of homosexuals as neighbors (1999)

Justifiability of homosexuality (1999)

Orthodox Christian Support for Church's Position of Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage

Perception of LGBTQ+ People

Overall

Perceived Safety*

Equal Treatment

Visibility & Representation

Culture

Services

History

Homosexual activity in Romania

Same-sex marriage in Romania

Censorship of LGBT issues in Romania

Right to change legal gender in Romania

Gender-affirming care in Romania

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Romania

LGBT discrimination in Romania

LGBT employment discrimination in Romania

LGBT housing discrimination in Romania

Same-sex adoption in Romania

Intersex infant surgery in Romania

Serving openly in military in Romania

Blood donations by MSMs in Romania

Conversion therapy in Romania

Equal age of consent in Romania

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