- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Ambiguous
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Same-sex marriage in Dominican Republic is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Dominican Republic is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Dominican Republic is illegal.
Gender-Affirming Care in Dominican Republic is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Dominican Republic is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Dominican Republic is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Dominican Republic is ambiguous.
LGBT housing discrimination in Dominican Republic is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Dominican Republic is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Dominican Republic is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Dominican Republic is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Dominican Republic is legal.
Conversion therapy in Dominican Republic is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Dominican Republic is equal.
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Dominican Republic.
- Azua
- Bahoruco
- Barahona
- Dajabón
- Distrito Nacional
- Duarte
- El Seybo
- Espaillat
- Hato Mayor
- Independencia
- La Altagracia
- La Estrelleta
- La Romana
- La Vega
- María Trinidad Sánchez
- Monseñor Nouel
- Monte Cristi
- Monte Plata
- Pedernales
- Peravia
- Puerto Plata
- Salcedo
- Samaná
- San Cristóbal
- San Jose de Ocoa
- San Juan
- San Pedro de Macorís
- Santiago
- Santiago Rodríguez
- Sánchez Ramírez
- Valverde
- Santo Domingo ()