- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
According to recent survey data, underlying homophobic beliefs appear to be highly prevalent in Zimbabwe, signaling a hostile environment for LGBTQ+ people.
History
Homosexual activity in Zimbabwe is male illegal, female legal.
Since 2006
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Zimbabwe is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Zimbabwe is legal, but requires surgery.
Since Jan 1, 1986
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Zimbabwe is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Zimbabwe is illegal in some contexts.
Since Apr 18, 1980
Since Apr 18, 1980
LGBT employment discrimination in Zimbabwe is ambiguous.
Since Apr 18, 2017
LGBT housing discrimination in Zimbabwe is ambiguous.
Since Apr 18, 1980
Same-sex adoption in Zimbabwe is single only.
Serving openly in military in Zimbabwe is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Zimbabwe is legal.
Conversion therapy in Zimbabwe is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Zimbabwe is equal.
Since Oct 21, 2015
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Zimbabwe.
- Matabeleland North
- Matabeleland South
- Midlands
- Bulawayo (City)
- Harare (City)
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