In 2002, there were 16 recorded legal changes made affecting LGBT people. In the previous year, there were 54 changes made and 98 in the following year. A total of 584 legal changes were made in the 2000s.
- November 7Same-sex adoption becomes legal.As in the UK, IVF treatment is available for lesbian couples too.
- September 10Same-sex adoption becomes legal.Legal under the case of Du Toit v Minister of Welfare and Population Development, later made official through the Consolidated Children's Act of 2010
- September 1
- August 31LGBT housing discrimination becomes sexual orientation and gender identity.Under the Romanian Criminal Code.
- July 11Equal age of consent becomes equal.The revised Criminal Code equalised the age of consent to 17, after pressure from the EU.
- June 24Equal age of consent becomes equal.The age of consent between people with maximum 5 years of difference is 14. Sexual contact between coetaneous is never punishable.
- June 6Same-sex adoption becomes legal.
- June
- April 17Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- March 12Same-sex adoption becomes single only.The adoption requirement does not allow for unmarried couples or single parents of any form to apply for adoption of children.
- March 1Same-sex adoption becomes illegal.Same-sex couples or even homosexuals are not allowed to adopt in Kenya. Chapter 141, Section 158 of Kenya's The Children Act states: "An adoption order shall not be made if the applicant or, in the case of joint applicants, both or any of them [...] is a homosexual."
- February 13
- January 15LGBT discrimination becomes illegal in some contexts.Law 14170 of January 15, 2002. Determines the imposition of penalties for companies who practice discriminatory act against a person because of their sexual orientation.
- January 6