Eastern Europe
LGBT rights in: | Same-sex sexual activity | Recognition of same-sex relationships | Same-sex marriage | Same-sex adoption | Allows gays to serve openly in military? | Anti-discrimination | Laws concerning gender identity/expression |
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Albania | Legal since 1995 + UN decl. sign. |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination | Forbids discrimination based on gender identity. | ||||
Armenia | Legal since 2002 + UN decl. sign. |
/ No explicit ban. However, LGB persons have been reportedly discharged because of their sexual orientation. | |||||
Azerbaijan | Legal since 2000 | Unknown | |||||
Belarus | Legal since 1994 | Constitutional ban since 1994. | / Banned from military service during peacetime, but during wartime homosexuals are permitted to enlist as partially able. | ||||
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Legal since 1998 + UN decl. sign. |
Bans some anti-gay discrimination | |||||
Bulgaria | Legal since 1968 + UN decl. sign. |
Constitution defines marriage as "a union of a man and a woman" | Single gay persons may adopt. | Bans all anti-gay discrimination | |||
Georgia | Legal since 2000 + UN decl. sign. |
Unknown | Bans some anti-gay discrimination | ||||
Macedonia | Legal since 1996 + UN decl. sign. |
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Moldova | Legal since 1995 | Constitutional ban since 1994. | Bans some anti-gay discrimination | ||||
Montenegro | Legal since 1977 + UN decl. sign. |
Constitutional ban since 2007. | Bans all anti-gay discrimination | Forbids discrimination based on gender identity. | |||
Romania | Legal since 1996 + UN decl. sign. |
Civil Code defines marriage as "a union of a man and a woman" | Single gay persons may adopt. | Bans all anti-gay discrimination | Sex change legal; birth certificate is amended after the reassignment surgery | ||
Russia | Legal since 1993. Previously legal from 1917 to 1930. | Some regions ban the "propaganda" of homosexualism | |||||
Serbia | Legal since 1994 + UN decl. sign. |
Constitution defines marriage as "a union of a man and a woman" | Bans all anti-gay discrimination | Act on the elimination of discrimination | |||
Ukraine | Legal since 1991 | Constitution defines marriage as "a union of a man and a woman" |
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