- 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 and gender identity
- 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
Public Opinion
Recent studies in Romania have revealed a prevalence of resistance towards LGBTQ+ rights.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 9 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Romania.
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
Homosexual activity in Romania is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Romania is no censorship.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Romania is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Romania is illegal in some contexts.
"Anti-discrimination legislation sanctions ‘any difference, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, social status, beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, chronic disease, HIV positive status, belonging to a disadvantaged group or any other criterion, aiming to or resulting in a restriction or prevention of the equal recognition, use or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social and cultural field or in any other fields of public life.'"
LGBT employment discrimination in Romania is sexual orientation only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Romania is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in Romania is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Romania is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Romania is legal.
Conversion therapy in Romania is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Romania is equal.
LGBT Rights by County
View the LGBT laws in each individual county of Romania.
- Alba
- Arad
- Arges
- Bacau
- Bihor
- Bistrita-Nasaud
- Botosani
- Braila
- Brasov
- Buzau
- Calarasi
- Caras-Severin
- Cluj
- Constanta
- Covasna
- Dolj
- Dâmbovita
- Galati
- Giurgiu
- Gorj
- Harghita
- Hunedoara
- Ialomita
- Iasi
- Ilfov
- Maramures
- Mehedinti
- Mures
- Neamt
- Olt
- Prahova
- Salaj
- Satu Mare
- Sibiu
- Suceava
- Teleorman
- Timis
- Tulcea
- Vaslui
- Vrancea
- Vâlcea
- Bucuresti (City)