- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- Unknown
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✔ 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
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Support for LGBT protections by US state
Question: "Do you strongly favor, favor, oppose or strongly oppose laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing?"
Opposition of religiously based refusals to serve gay and lesbian people
Question: "Do you strongly favor, favor, oppose or strongly oppose allowing a small business owner in your state to refuse to provide products or services to gay or lesbian people, if doing so violates their religious beliefs"
Support of same-sex marriage by US state
Question: "Do you strongly favor, favor, oppose or strongly oppose allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally?"
Support of homosexuality by US state
Question: "Which statement comes closer to your own views: homosexuality should be accepted by society OR homosexuality should be discouraged by society?"
History
Same-sex marriage in Hawaii is legal.
Since Dec 2, 2013
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Hawaii is unknown.
Right to change legal gender in Hawaii is legal, surgery not required.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Hawaii is recognized.
Since Jul 1, 2020
LGBT discrimination in Hawaii is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Hawaii is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since 2011
LGBT housing discrimination in Hawaii is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Additionally, 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)."
Same-sex adoption in Hawaii is legal.
Until -0001
The status is ambiguous because second-parent adoption for same-sex couples varies by judge and county, and no decision by the lower court has been approved by case law in appellate court, nor by state statute.
Serving openly in military in Hawaii is legal.
Since Sep 20, 2011
Blood donations by MSMs in Hawaii is banned (3-month deferral).
Since Apr 2, 2020
Conversion therapy in Hawaii is banned.
Since Sep 7, 2016
Until Sep 7, 2016