- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Female equal, male N/A
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Zimbabwe is male illegal, female legal.
Same-sex marriage in Zimbabwe is banned.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Zimbabwe is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Zimbabwe is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Zimbabwe is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Zimbabwe is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Zimbabwe is ambiguous.
LGBT housing discrimination in Zimbabwe is ambiguous.
Same-sex adoption in Zimbabwe is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Zimbabwe is unknown.
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 female equal, male n/a.
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Zimbabwe.
- Matabeleland North
- Matabeleland South
- Midlands
- Bulawayo (City)
- Harare (City)