- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- 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 with restrictions
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Silistra is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Silistra is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Silistra is state-enforced.
During this time, discussions or expressions of LGBT-related topics were generally suppressed, and any attempt to advocate for LGBT rights could face censorship and persecution by the government. This was part of the broader censorship and control exerted by the communist regime over various aspects of society, including the media, literature, and public discourse.
Right to change legal gender in Silistra is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Silistra is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Silistra is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Silistra is sexual orientation only.
On July 28, 2023, the Bulgarian Parliament adopted amendments to the country’s Penal Code adding sexual orientation to the list of such characteristics. On August 3, 2023, the law was published in the State Gazette. Article 5(5) of Bulgaria’s Constitution states that normative acts take effect three days after promulgation unless otherwise specified; accordingly, because no alternate date was provided, the amendments took effect on August 7, 2023.
LGBT discrimination in Silistra is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Silistra is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Silistra is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Silistra is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Silistra is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Silistra is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Silistra is legal with restrictions.
Conversion therapy in Silistra is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Silistra is equal.