- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (death penalty as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Imprisonment as punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- N/A
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
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Homosexual activity in Sar-e Pul is illegal (death penalty as punishment).
Articles 645, 646, 649, and 650 criminalize: same-sex intimacy between women (punishable by up to one year in prison); sodomy (punishable by up to two years in prison); same-sex intimacy between men, even without penetration (punishable by three months to one year in prison); and facilitating sodomy by introducing individuals to each other and providing a place for it to occur (punishable by imprisonment as well).
Same-sex marriage in Sar-e Pul is banned.
Eleven years later, the 1960 Marriage Law came into effect and fully replaced previous family and marriage laws, though it still required marriage to have the consent of the bride and the groom, which is interpreted to mean that only heterosexual marriages were allowed.
In 1971, Afghanistan's Law on Marriage (1971) was enacted. Article 25 states: “The marriage certificate is a document of man and woman which proves the contract of marriage.”
In 1977, the 1977 Civil Code took effect, and is the current law governing marriage in Afghanistan. Article 60 defines marriage as a contract between a man and a woman.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Sar-e Pul is imprisonment as punishment.
Right to change legal gender in Sar-e Pul is illegal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Sar-e Pul is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Sar-e Pul is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Sar-e Pul is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Sar-e Pul is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Sar-e Pul is n/a.
Intersex infant surgery in Sar-e Pul is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Sar-e Pul is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Sar-e Pul is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Sar-e Pul is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Sar-e Pul is n/a.