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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====North America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in North America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed 2005 from penal code, sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court re (Lawrence vs. Texas, in 2003).&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &amp;quot;Defense of Marriage&amp;quot; proposals invalidating legal recognition of any same-sex relationships (Project 99) failed in Puerto Rican Senate in 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Same-sex marriage not allowed, Puerto Rico is covered by US Defense of Marriage Act.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Local gay rights bill (#1725) approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, PR Senate is reviewing at present. Puerto Rico is covered by United States federal Hate Crimes law.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] #1725 under consideration in Puerto Rico currently does not have provisions protecting transgender persons.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN A COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed 2005 from penal code, sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court re (Lawrence vs. Texas, in 2003).&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &amp;quot;Defense of Marriage&amp;quot; proposals invalidating legal recognition of any same-sex relationships (Project 99) failed in Puerto Rican Senate in 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay marriage not allowed, Puerto Rico is covered by US Defense of Marriage Act.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Local gay rights bill (#1725) approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, PR Senate is reviewing at present. Puerto Rico is covered by United States federal Hate Crimes law.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] #1725 under consideration in Puerto Rico currently does not have provisions protecting transgender persons.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Disputed territories====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Disputed territories in the Americas===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed 2005 from penal code, sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court in 2003 by (Lawrence vs. Texas).&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &amp;quot;Defense of Marriage&amp;quot; proposals invalidating legal recognition of any same-sex relationships (Project 99) failed in Puerto Rican Senate in 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay marriage not allowed, Puerto Rico is covered by US Defense of Marriage Act.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Local gay rights bill (#1725) approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, PR Senate is reviewing at present. Puerto Rico is covered by United States federal Hate Crimes law.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] #1725 under consideration in Puerto Rico currently does not have provisions protecting transgender persons.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed from Puerto Rican penal code in 2005, previous local sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court in 2003 by Lawrence vs. Texas decision.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &amp;quot;Defense of Marriage&amp;quot; proposals invalidating legal recognition of any same-sex relationships (Project 99) failed in Puerto Rican Senate in 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay marriage not allowed, Puerto Rico is covered by US Defense of Marriage Act.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Local gay rights bill (#1725) approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, PR Senate is reviewing at present. Puerto Rico is covered by United States federal Hate Crimes law.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] #1725 under consideration in Puerto Rico currently does not have provisions protecting transgender persons.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN A COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN A COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed from Puerto Rican penal code in 2005, previous local sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court in 2003 by Lawrence vs. Texas decision.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &amp;quot;Defense of Marriage&amp;quot; proposals invalidating legal recognition of any same-sex relationships (Project 99) failed in Puerto Rican Senate in 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay marriage not allowed, Puerto Rico is covered by US Defense of Marriage Act.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Local gay rights bill approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, PR Senate is reviewing at present. Puerto Rico is covered by United States federal Hate Crimes law.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed from Puerto Rican penal code in 2005, previous local sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court in 2003 by Lawrence vs. Texas decision.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Local gay rights bill approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, PR Senate is reviewing at present. Puerto Rico is covered by United States federal Hate Crimes law.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN A COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed from Puerto Rican penal code in 2005, previous local sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court in 2003 by Lawrence vs. Texas decision.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay rights bill approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, Senate is reviewing at present. Puerto Rico is covered by United States federal Hate Crimes law.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed from Puerto Rican penal code in 2005, previous local sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court in 2003 by Lawrence vs. Texas decision.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay rights bill approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, Senate is reviewing at present.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN A COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Sodomy law removed from Puerto Rican penal code in 2005, previous local sodomy law had been invalidated by US Supreme Court in 2003 by Lawrence vs. Texas decision.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay rights bill approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, Senate is reviewing at present.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005, in fact invalidated by US Supreme Court in 2003 by Lawrence vs. Texas decision.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay rights bill approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, Senate is reviewing at present.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
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|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
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|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN A COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size:90%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] There are currently no laws against adoptions by single gay persons&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay rights bill approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, Senate is reviewing at present.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Disputed territories====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Disputed territories in the Americas===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bermuda}} [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|Bermuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1994 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Bermuda|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(due to policy of [[conscription]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Canada}} [[LGBT rights in Canada|Canada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1969 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Disputed age of consent discrepancy, [[LGBT rights in Canada|see article]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal [[Same-sex marriage in Canada|since 2003, nationwide since 2005]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.htm Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights (92-1E)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/Pubs/rn/1999-2000/2000rn29.htm Same Sex Couple Adoption: The Situation in Canada and Australia (Research Note 29 1999-2000)&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/details/caf.htm]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Bans '''all''' anti-gay discrimination, including [[hate speech]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Sex changes legally recognised; Explicit anti-discrimination protections only in [[Northwest Territories|NWT]], implicit elsewhere;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.canlii.org/nt/laws/sta/2002c.18/20080818/whole.html Northwest Territories ''Human Rights Act'', S.N.W.T. 2002, c.18. Section 5.]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Mexico}} [[LGBT rights in Mexico|Mexico]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1871 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex civil unions|Legal since 2007 in Mexico City and Coahuila]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico#Same-sex marriage|Legal since 2009 in Mexico City.]]&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=Telegraph | title=Mexico City becomes first Latin America city to legalise gay marriage | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6861429/Mexico-City-becomes-first-Latin-America-city-to-legalise-gay-marriage.html | accessdate=21 December 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal for gay couples since 2009 in Mexico City.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Gay marriage Mexico City&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Nationwide, single gay persons may adopt.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;adoption_mx&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citeweb|title=Intercountry Adoption: Mexico|date={{date|November 2009}}|publisher=Office of Children Issues, U.S. Dept. of State|url=http://adoption.state.gov/country/mexico.html}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 1999, nationwide since 2003.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Federal Law&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) | title=Mexico protects its gay and lesbian citizens with new law | date=April 23, 2003 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mexico+protects+its+gay+and+lesbian+citizens+with+new+law.-a0108149079 | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] In Mexico City only.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web | author=International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Trans | title=Mexico City extends official rights to transgender individuals | date=August 29, 2008 | url=http://trans.ilga.org/trans/welcome_to_the_ilga_trans_secretariat/news/mexico_mexico_city_extends_official_rights_to_transgender_individuals | accessdate=November 27, 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Flag_of_Saint-Pierre_and_Miquelon.svg‎|25px]] [[LGBT rights in Saint Pierre et Miquelon|Saint Pierre et Miquelon]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas collectivity of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States}} [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Lawrence v. Texas|Legal since 1962, nationwide since 2003]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex unions in the United States|Varies by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Legal since 2004, marriage in 5 states]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] / [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Single gay persons may adopt, laws on couples [[LGBT adoption#Summary of laws by jurisdiction|vary by state]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] [[Don't ask, don't tell|&amp;quot;Don't ask, don't tell&amp;quot; policy]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[LGBT rights in the United States#Civil rights laws|20 states]], &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!--7 states cover sexual orientation, plus 13 that cover gender and orientation--&amp;gt; sexual orientation included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||13 states ban discrimination by gender identity,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.hrc.org&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; included in federal hate crime definition&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;See [[Matthew Shepard Act]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Central America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Central America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Belize}} [[LGBT rights in Belize|Belize]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male: Illegal since 2003 (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence) [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female: Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[LGBT rights in Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1971 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No(There is a project in the Congress)]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown (Has happened in some cases)&lt;br /&gt;
||Doesn't apply. There are no military forces in Costa Rica, nonetheless they may serve in the police&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|El Salvador}} [[LGBT rights in El Salvador|El Salvador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Yes&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guatemala}} [[LGBT rights in Guatemala|Guatemala]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Anti-discrimination in Youth and Childhood Act since 1997.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Honduras}} [[LGBT rights in Honduras|Honduras]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[LGBT rights in Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.ilga.org/statehomophobia/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2008.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Panama}} [[LGBT rights in Panama|Panama]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2008&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Caribbean islands====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in the Caribbean islands===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Recognition of same-sex unions&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Anguilla}} [[LGBT rights in Anguilla|Anguilla]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;[[British overseas territory|Overseas territory]] of the [[United Kingdom]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000 &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}} [[LGBT rights in Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 15 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Aruba}} [[LGBT rights in Aruba|Aruba]] (&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Autonomous country in the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bahamas}} [[LGBT rights in the Bahamas|Bahamas]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1991 (Age of consent discrepancy)&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Barbados}} [[LGBT rights in Barbados|Barbados]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: life sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|British Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cayman Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Cuba}} [[LGBT rights in Cuba|Cuba]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1979 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominica}} [[LGBT rights in Dominica|Dominica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[LGBT rights in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]&lt;br /&gt;
|[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Grenada}} [[LGBT rights in Grenada|Grenada]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guadeloupe}} [[LGBT rights in Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Haiti}} [[LGBT rights in Haiti|Haiti]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}} [[LGBT rights in Jamaica|Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 10 years hard labor)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Martinique}} [[LGBT rights in Martinique|Martinique]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Overseas department of [[LGBT rights in France|France]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Montserrat}} [[LGBT rights in Montserrat|Montserrat]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles}} [[LGBT rights in the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only unions made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Only same-sex marriages made in [[The Netherlands]] recognised&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|| &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Puerto Rico}} [[LGBT rights in Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;([[Commonwealth (United States insular area)|Commonwealth]] of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Gay rights bill approved 43 to 6 by House of Representatives 11/13/2009, Senate is reviewing at present.&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: 10 years)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Lucia}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Lucia|Saint Lucia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} [[LGBT rights in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: fine and/or 10 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}} [[LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Illegal (Penalty: 25 year prison sentence)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Transgender issues--&amp;gt; Unknown  &lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Turks and Caicos Islands}} [[LGBT rights in Turks and Caicos Islands|Turks and Caicos Islands]]&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2000&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|United States Virgin Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Insular area of the [[LGBT rights in the United States|United States]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||[[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] US military has a &amp;quot;[[don't ask, don't tell]]&amp;quot; policy&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
||-&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====South America====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in South America===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot; cellpadding=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot; cellspacing=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|- bgcolor=&amp;quot;#CCCCCC&amp;quot; align=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Argentina}} [[LGBT rights in Argentina|Argentina]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation in all country, [[Civil union in Argentina|Civil unions in Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, and Rio Negro province]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;No national protections, but cities of Buenos Aires and Rosario have had laws since 1996.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Bolivia}} [[LGBT rights in Bolivia|Bolivia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since  &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutionally banned in 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Bans '''all''' discrimination based on gender identity&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/LibroConsvigenteProyectoCPE.pdf]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[LGBT rights in Brazil|Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1830 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Unregistered cohabitation throughout the country &lt;br /&gt;
See also [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Brazil]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Decision pending in the [[Supreme Federal Court (Brazil)|Supreme Court]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2009/07/03/gays-comemoram-acao-no-stf-sobre-uniao-civil-756654132.asp]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.gaybrasil.com.br/noticias.asp?Categoria=Idigital&amp;amp;Codigo=2987]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=6501]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://jus2.uol.com.br/doutrina/texto.asp?id=8206]{{pt}} ''&amp;quot;Ressalte-se que ser homossexual não é crime militar.&amp;quot;''&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Legal protection for sexual orientation in some states&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]/[[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Despite a lack of specific legislation, recent [[jurisprudence]] has been in favor of gender-motivated identity change.&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135663/justica-autoriza-alteracao-no-registro-de-transexual-que-trocou-de-sexo]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/135675/justica-autoriza-mudanca-de-sexo-em-documentos]{{pt}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Chile}} [[LGBT rights in Chile|Chile]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1998 &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Colombia}} [[LGBT rights in Colombia|Colombia]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1981 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2007&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] single gay person may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 1999. Since 2009: the military special social security system can be used by same sex couples in the army&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://manuelvelandiaautobiografiayarticulos.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-cambio-de-nombre-es-posible-en.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Since 1993.  The name's gender can be changed easily in the National ID Card, to change the sex field a surgery is required.&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Ecuador}} [[LGBT rights in Ecuador|Ecuador]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1997 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/10/ecuador-celebro-la-primera-union-de-hecho-entre-personas-del-mismo-sexo-desatando-la-indignacion-de-la-iglesia-catolica.html ]{{es}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  Civil unions recognized since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|French Guiana}} [[LGBT rights in French Guiana|French Guiana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1791 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Pacte civil de solidarité]] since 1999&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Single gay persons may adopt&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Guyana}} [[LGBT rights in Guyana|Guyana]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Male illegal (Penalty: life imprisonment)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Female legal.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Added to constitution in 2004, but withdrawn afterwards by the government.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Paraguay}} [[LGBT rights in Paraguay|Paraguay]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal (Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Constitutional ban since 1992&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/pa00000_.html#P001_]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Peru}} [[LGBT rights in Peru|Peru]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] since 2009  &amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; http://www.dosmanzanas.com/2009/12/el-tribunal-constitucional-de-peru-considera-que-no-se-puede-excluir-de-la-policia-o-el-ejercito-a-las-personas-homosexuales.html&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;Bans some anti-gay discrimination&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Suriname}} [[LGBT rights in Suriname|Suriname]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(Age of consent discrepancy)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt;  Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt;Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[LGBT rights in Uruguay|Uruguay]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 1934 &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] [[Civil unions in Uruguay|Civil unions]] since 2008&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091406uruguay.htm Gay News From 365Gay.com&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt; [http://www.towleroad.com/towleroad/2006/09/uruguay_to_allo.html Uruguay to Allow Civil Unions - Towleroad, a site with homosexual tendencies&amp;lt;!--Bot-generated title--&amp;gt;]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] (but proposed)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Since 2009&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination since 2004&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]]Since December 2008, transgender people can change their legal gender, from the age of 12 onwards.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;http://www.tetu.com/actualites/international/uruguay-feu-vert-a-ladoption-par-les-couples-homos-15431 Uruguay: feu vert à l'adoption par les couples homos!]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[LGBT rights in Venezuela|Venezuela]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt;  [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; + UN decl. sign.&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] Civil union bill passed first reading, becomes law if passes second&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:X_mark.svg|15px|No]] &lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Ban revoked from 1999 constitution at last minute; under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]] Under consideration (passed first reading)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{#if:{{{world|}}}|====Disputed territories====}}{{#if:{{{continent|}}}|===Legislation in Disputed territories in the Americas===}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;!--PLEASE INCLUDE REFERENCES IF YOU ADD OR CHANGE DATA NOT ALREADY IN THE COUNTRY'S LGBT RIGHTS ARTICLE--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|LGBT rights in:&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Homosexual acts legal?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Recognition of same-sex relationships&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex marriage&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Same-sex adoption&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;|Allows gays to serve openly in military?&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Anti-discrimination &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(sexual orientation)&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
! width=&amp;quot;12.5%&amp;quot;| Laws concerning gender identity/expression&lt;br /&gt;
|-&lt;br /&gt;
|{{flagicon|Falkland Islands}} [[LGBT rights in the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]] &amp;lt;small&amp;gt;(overseas territory of the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]], claimed by [[Argentina]])&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Legal status--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal&amp;lt;!-- since ?--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Recognition of relationships--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Legal since 2005&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Same-sex marriage--&amp;gt; [[Image:X mark.svg|15px|No]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Adoption--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Military--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]]&lt;br /&gt;
|&amp;lt;!--Anti-discrimination--&amp;gt; [[Image:Yes check.svg|15px|Yes]] Bans some anti-gay discrimination&lt;br /&gt;
||&amp;lt;!--Gender identity/expression--&amp;gt; Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT rights table templates|Americas]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Americas templates|LGBT rights]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[de:Vorlage: Navigationsleiste Homosexualität in Amerika]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/noinclude&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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