- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Single only
- Discrimination✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination✖ No protections
- Military✔ Legal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Conversion TherapyAmbiguous
History
Current status
(since Jun 26, 2003)
(since Jun 26, 2003)
Legal
Legal due to the US Supreme ruling about homosexual activity.
Current status
Single only
Florida §3.042 specifies any individual may adopt, but married couples may only adopt when engaged in a male/female marriage. Second-parent adoption is granted in some cases to same-sex parents, but it varies widely by judge and county. Second-parent adoption has only been ruled on in lower courts; no appellate court case law, nor state statute, dictates the legality of it.
Current status
(since 1992)
(since 1992)
No protections
Some cities and counties have offered some protection, but at the state level there is none.
Ambiguous
Full employment discrimination protections pending statewide. Under federal law VII and city discrimination protections. As well as sexual orientation discrimination protection under state law.
Current status
No protections
As of December 16, 2014, there are no legal protections for people who are LGBT in regards to employment.
Ambiguous
Full state housing discrimination protections pending. City Housing discrimination protections only.
Current status
No protections
Florida does not provide any legal protections from discrimination based upon sexual orientation or gender identification.
However, the Human Rights Campaign states, "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires grantees and participants of HUD programs to comply with local and state non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity. HUD also prohibits inquiries regarding the sexual orientation or gender identity of a prospective tenant or applicant for assisted housing in every state (March 2012)."
However, the Human Rights Campaign states, "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires grantees and participants of HUD programs to comply with local and state non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity. HUD also prohibits inquiries regarding the sexual orientation or gender identity of a prospective tenant or applicant for assisted housing in every state (March 2012)."
Current status
(since Sep 20, 2011)
(since Sep 20, 2011)
Legal
Don't ask don't tell was officially repealed.
Current status
(since 2010)
(since 2010)
Equal
Legal age of consent is 18, but close in age exclusions apply.
Banned
Under the bill that provided lgbt protections for youth in foster care. Full state conversion therapy ban pending. In Certain cities it is outlawed. Illegal in foster care. Full Criminalization pending.
Until Jul 30, 2016
Not banned
But they are trying to ban it soon.
Current status
Ambiguous
Conversion Therapy is currently legal. No law currently bans it, despite organizations such as the American Psychological Association denouncing it. Though it's not actually ambiguous (It is in fact legal), this is the best indicator of the available options.