- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- N/A
Public Opinion
According to recent survey data available, societal resistance to LGBTQ+ rights in Sri Lanka is noticeable.
Sri Lanka Surveys
History
Homosexual activity in Sri Lanka is illegal (imprisonment as punishment).
Since Jan 1, 1885
Human Rights Watch and Equal Ground have found evidence of these laws continuing to be enforced by police as of 2020.
Sri Lanka is an independent nation, as such, India's 2018 Supreme Court decision to decriminalize same-sex relationships and make a similar law unenforceable does not apply.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Sri Lanka is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Sri Lanka is legal, but requires surgery.
Since Jul 4, 2010
Despite being legal, there are many cases where men and women got arrested for living a life as a opposite gender.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Sri Lanka is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Sri Lanka is no protections.
Since Oct 8, 2014
LGBT housing discrimination in Sri Lanka is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Jan 1, 2017
Same-sex adoption in Sri Lanka is illegal.
Since Oct 1, 2017
Serving openly in military in Sri Lanka is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Sri Lanka is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Sri Lanka is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Sri Lanka is n/a.
LGBT Rights by district
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Sri Lanka.
- Ampāra
- Anurādhapura
- Badulla
- Gampaha
- Gālla
- Hambantŏṭa
- Kalutara
- Kegalla
- Kilinŏchchi
- Kuruṇægala
- Kŏḷamba
- Madakalapuva
- Mahanuvara
- Mannārama
- Mulativ
- Mātale
- Mātara
- Mŏṇarāgala
- Nuvara Ĕliya
- Puttalama
- Pŏḷŏnnaruva
- Ratnapura
- Trikuṇāmalaya
- Vavuniyāva
- Yāpanaya
- Basnāhira paḷāta (Province)
- Dakuṇu paḷāta (Province)
- Madhyama paḷāta (Province)
- Mattiya mākāṇam (Province)
- Sabaragamuva paḷāta (Province)
- Uturu paḷāta (Province)
- Uturumæ̆da paḷāta (Province)
- Vayamba paḷāta (Province)
- Ūva paḷāta (Province)