- 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
- Ambiguous
- 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
Homosexual activity in New York is legal.
Since Jun 26, 2003
Censorship of LGBT Issues in New York is unknown.
Right to change legal gender in New York is legal, surgery not required.
LGBT discrimination in New York is illegal.
Since Jan 16, 2003
With respect to transgender individuals, SONDA does not explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and expression. However, SONDA does apply when a transgender person is discriminated against based upon his or her actual or perceived sexual orientation. Furthermore, courts have also held that transgender people are protected under provisions of the New York State Human Rights Law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex and/or disability. And in 2009, then-Governor David Paterson issued an executive order prohibiting discrimination in state employment on the basis of gender identity.
LGBT employment discrimination in New York is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Jan 1, 2018
LGBT housing discrimination in New York is sexual orientation and gender identity.
With respect to transgender individuals, SONDA does not explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and expression. However, SONDA does apply when a transgender person is discriminated against based upon his or her actual or perceived sexual orientation. Furthermore, courts have also held that transgender people are protected under provisions of the New York State Human Rights Law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex and/or disability. And in 2009, then-Governor David Paterson issued an executive order prohibiting discrimination in state employment on the basis of gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in New York is legal.
Serving openly in military in New York is legal.
Since Sep 20, 2011
Blood donations by MSMs in New York is banned (3-month deferral).
Since Apr 2, 2020
Conversion therapy in New York is ambiguous.
Equal age of consent in New York is equal.