- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- Unknown
- 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
- ✖ Banned (3-month deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Until Jun 26, 2015
History
Same-sex marriage in Guam is legal.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2015
Since Jan 1, 2015
Legal
Under Guam Lawmakers.
Until Jun 26, 2015
Unrecognized
Same-sex marriage is not legal, but Guam is represented by the 9th Circuit Court which has ruled in favor of marriage equality -- making same-sex marriage legal in all states represented by the 9th Circuit. Also, due to Supreme Court case, United States vs. Windsor, legally married couples are granted at the federal level.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Guam is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Right to change legal gender in Guam is legal, surgery not required.
Current status
Legal, surgery not required
Legally federally. Missing non binary options on documents.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Guam is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
Not currently legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Guam is illegal.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2015
Since Jan 1, 2015
Illegal
Under Guam Lawmakers
LGBT employment discrimination in Guam is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2015
Since Jan 1, 2015
Sexual orientation and gender identity
under the Guam Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
Same-sex adoption in Guam is legal.
Current status
Legal
as being a territory of USA.
Serving openly in military in Guam is legal.
Current status
Since Sep 20, 2012
Since Sep 20, 2012
Legal
Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the United States, and gays and lesbians may openly serve.
Blood donations by MSMs in Guam is banned (3-month deferral).
Current status
Since Apr 2, 2020
Since Apr 2, 2020
Banned (3-month deferral)
Blood donation centers follow the new FDA 3-month deferral guidance.
Banned (1-year deferral)
Blood donation centers followed the non-binding FDA one-year deferral guidance.
Conversion therapy in Guam is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Not criminalized in any of the US territories.
Equal age of consent in Guam is equal.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 1978
Since Jan 1, 1978
Equal
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