- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Intersex only
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Wien is legal.
In 1803, a new criminal law abolished ship pulling for homosexuals, substituting it with imprisonment for six months to one year.
The criminal code underwent several amendments until 1852 when impropriety against nature was still punishable, with increased imprisonment from one to five years.
Legal interpretations evolved over time, initially exempting certain acts but later broadening the scope to include all immoral acts with a person of the same sex.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Wien is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Wien is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
However in January 2025, the Administrative Court of Austria ruled that the civil registry should correspond to “biological, physical sex”. However, trans Austrians can currently still change their legal gender.
Gender-affirming care in Wien is legal.
Hate crime protections in Wien is sexual orientation only.
LGBT discrimination in Wien is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Wien is sexual orientation only.
LGBT housing discrimination in Wien is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in Wien is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Wien is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Wien is legal.
Since September 2022, the ban was lifted completely.
Conversion therapy in Wien is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Wien is equal.