- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unregistered cohabitation
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- Ambiguous
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Acceptance of homosexuals as neighbors ?
Justifiability of homosexuality ?
Opinion on same-sex couples as parents ?
"Should society accept homosexuality?" (2019) ?
Perceived prevalence of discrimination against sexual orientation (European Union) ?
Perceived prevalence of discrimination against transgender people (European Union) ?
Acceptance of same-sex relationships (European Union) ?
Support for transgender people changing legal gender (European Union) ?
Perceived Acceptance of Gay People ?
History
Homosexual activity in Slovakia is legal.
Since Jan 1, 1961
Same-sex marriage in Slovakia is unregistered cohabitation.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Slovakia is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Slovakia is ambiguous.
Since Mar 3, 2023
Due to a lack of standards and regulations as of November 18, 2022, healthcare facilities in Slovakia are refusing to treat transgender patients, forcing them to travel abroad for care. Additionally, some civil registry offices are delaying the processing of applications to change one's legal gender because they are waiting for the Ministry of Health to approve the new standards of care, which indicates that changing one's legal gender might soon be possible again.
Until Jan 1, 2016
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Slovakia is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Slovakia is illegal.
Since May 22, 2013
LGBT employment discrimination in Slovakia is sexual orientation only.
Since Jan 1, 2008
LGBT housing discrimination in Slovakia is sexual orientation only.
Since Jan 1, 2008
Same-sex adoption in Slovakia is single only.
Since Jan 1, 2017
Serving openly in military in Slovakia is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Since Jan 1, 1993
Blood donations by MSMs in Slovakia is banned (1-year deferral).
Conversion therapy in Slovakia is not banned.
Since Jan 22, 2018
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Slovakia.