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Gay rights in croatia

UPDATED: 7.1.2025.

Same-sex couples in Croatia do not have the right to marriage by law. However, they can enter into a experience partnership, which is a legally approved union between two people of the same sex. Foreign citizens can enter a experience partnership under the identical conditions as Croatian citizens.

When the Croatian government refers to “life partners”, they refer only to homosexual couples with a legal union or partnership registration. While Croatia recognizes common-law relationships for the purpose of residence, it does not do so with regard to citizenship.

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What is a life partnership in Croatia?

Same-sex partners cannot get legally married in Croatia. According to Croatian laws, only heterosexual couples can procure married in Croatia.

However, there is another type of union that same-sex couples can enter legally in Croatia. It is officially called životno partnerstvo, which means life partnership.

The Commandment of life partnership of persons of the alike sex was passed in Croatia on August 6, 2014. It is called Zakon o životnom partnerstvu osoba istoga spola and is available here. This law represents the legal

UPDATED: 6.6.2023.

During the last few years, LGBTQ rights in Croatia have been extended. Progress and acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ community are expanding. Although many laws protect their rights, many laws in Croatia still discriminate against them.

Zagreb has a lot of LGBTQ friendly places and happenings, including clubs, bars, gatherings, and events. Some friendly cities in Croatia include Split, Rijeka, Osijek, Hvar, Rab, Rovinj, and Dubrovnik. More than 200.000 LGBTQIA+ tourists visit Croatia every year.

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Croatian acts that protect the LGBTQ community

The accompanying laws currently on the books in Croatia include protections for the LGBTQ community, either directly or indirectly. By indirectly, we signify that discrimination on the basis of sex is banned.

1. Constitution of the Republic of Croatia

Everyone in Croatia has rights and freedoms regardless of their:

  • Race
  • Color
  • Sex
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Political or other belief
  • National or social origin
  • Property
  • Birth
  • Education
  • Social status
  • Other characteristics

Everyone is equal before the law. Everyone is guaranteed respect and legal protection of his persona

Croatia

The 2008 Anti-Discrimination Commandment prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender culture, and gender expression in access to public and private services or to access to establishments serving the public. The Office of the Ombudperson for Gender Equality accepts and reviews citizen complaints of discrimination, and the Office for Gender Equality monitors, reports, and makes recommendations regarding human rights policies.

The Criminal Code was amended in 2006 to include provisions that criminalize hostility and hate speech based on sexual orientation, and new provisions of the penal code, adopted in 2012, punish crimes based on gender identity. 

Although marriage is defined solely as a union between a man and a woman, the Law on Existence Partnerships of Persons of the Same Sex, adopted in 2014, established civil unions for homosexual couples. Civil unions provide all legal and economic benefits of marriage except for the right to adopt children. However, a subsequent decision of the Tall Administrative Court in 2022 held that same-sex couples can jointly adopt.   Croatia does not require medical procedures, such as sterilization, surgical in

LGBT Croatia, two steps forward and one step back

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A historic verdict by the Administrative Court of Zagreb grants queer couples the right to adopt. The progress, however, was immediately undermined by the Ministry of the Family, which announced an appeal

14/05/2021 -  Giovanni Vale Zagreb

Two steps forward and one step help. When it comes to LGBT rights in Croatia, this seems to be the general trend: there is progress in the region, but it is always accompanied by some backlash. The latest example came last week. On May 5, the Croatian association "Rainbow Families" (Dugine Obitelji) announced a "historic" verdict by the Administrative Court of Zagreb: for the first time, the judges backed the right to adopt for same-sex couples, paving the way for the achievement of complete equality between heterosexual and homosexual couples. But then the Ministry of Labor, Pensions, Family and Social Policies has announced an appeal, while over the weekend some ultras of the Rijeka football team published a video in which the rainbow flag hanging in front of th