- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Adoption✔ Legal
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Employment DiscriminationSexual orientation only
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✔ Legal
- Conversion TherapyVaries by Region
Public Opinion
"Should Society Accept Homosexuality?"
Spain ranks #1 out of 39 countries surveyed. (Source: Pew Research Center, June 4, 2013)
(11%) No
Yes (88%)
History
Current status
(since 1979)
(since 1979)
Legal
Spain was the third country to formally legalize same-sex marriage.
Current status
(since Jul 3, 2005)
(since Jul 3, 2005)
Legal
Current status
(since Jul 3, 2005)
(since Jul 3, 2005)
Legal
Included in equal marriage legislation
Current status
(since Nov 23, 1995)
(since Nov 23, 1995)
Illegal
Art. 22.4 criminal code. In the current penal code is considered an aggravating.
Current status
(since Nov 23, 1995)
(since Nov 23, 1995)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
No
Current status
(since Nov 23, 1995)
(since Nov 23, 1995)
Equal
Actually the criminal code in Spain is under review in order to increase the age of consent.
Current status
(since Jun 11, 1976)
(since Jun 11, 1976)
Legal
* \"From\" date taken from earliest recorded specific legislation on the matter. MSM is not contemplated as a criterion for exclusion.
Information regarding blood donation by MSM during the Franco dictatorship is unknown, but was probably outlawed along with the practice of homosexuality. No specific legal texts from that historical time period address the issue.
Information regarding blood donation by MSM during the Franco dictatorship is unknown, but was probably outlawed along with the practice of homosexuality. No specific legal texts from that historical time period address the issue.
Current status
Varies by Region
Only in Madrid and Valencia. Nationwide Pending.