- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Views on same-sex marriage or other legal recognition
Views on same-sex couples' right to adopt
Acceptance of homosexuals as neighbors ?
Justifiability of homosexuality ?
Opinion on same-sex couples as parents ?
"Should society accept homosexuality?" (2019) ?
"Should society accept homosexuality?" (2013) ?
Perceived Acceptance of Gay People ?
By The Numbers
History
Homosexual activity in United Kingdom is legal.
Since Nov 30, 2000
The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 legalized sexual acts between two men who were 21 or older (Excluding men serving in the military), but it placed new restrictions on sex for men who have sex with men. The act prohibited sex in places where a third party was likely to be present.
Same-sex marriage in United Kingdom is legal.
Since Jan 13, 2020
Under the Act, same-sex couples can register a civil partnership, which has almost the same legal effects, rights and obligations as marriage does for mixed-sex couples. For that reason, civil partnership is sometimes called ‘gay marriage’. However, legally, it is not marriage, but is a separate, segregated system
Censorship of LGBT Issues in United Kingdom is no censorship.
Since Nov 18, 2003
Right to change legal gender in United Kingdom is legal, surgery not required.
Since Apr 4, 2005
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in United Kingdom is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in United Kingdom is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in United Kingdom is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in United Kingdom is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in United Kingdom is legal.
Since Nov 7, 2002
Serving openly in military in United Kingdom is legal.
Since Jan 12, 2000
Until 1967
Blood donations by MSMs in United Kingdom is legal.
Since Jun 14, 2021
Northern Ireland is due to follow suit with these changes in September 2021.
Conversion therapy in United Kingdom is not banned.
On January 17 2023, the government announced they'd pass a new law to include transgender people in the conversion therapy ban.
Until Jan 1, 2017
Equal age of consent in United Kingdom is equal.
Since Aug 1, 2001
*Sex between more than two men remained illegal until later.
LGBT Rights by Country
View the LGBT laws in each individual country of United Kingdom.
- England
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- Gibraltar (Territory)
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Territory)
- Isles of Scilly (Region)