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🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Legal Status in South Africa

Based on national laws as of 2025

72/100
LGBTQ+ Friendly
✓ Same-sex relations legal
✓ Equal age of consent
✓ Partnership / union
✓ Same-sex marriage
✓ Adoption rights
✓ Anti-discrimination law
✓ Legal gender change

First country in Africa to legalise same-sex marriage (2006). Constitutional protections exist, but LGBTQ+ people face significant societal prejudice, especially outside cities.

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Pink Loerie Mardi Gras Knysna
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Knysna, South Africa

Pink Loerie Mardi Gras Knysna

The Pink Loerie Mardi Gras transforms Knysna — one of South Africa's most beautiful garden route towns — into a week-long LGBTQ+ celebration each April or May. The event takes its name from the flamboyant Knysna loerie bird, and the garden-route setting of lagoons, forests, and the famous Knysna Heads provides an extraordinary backdrop. It's become a beloved annual gathering for LGBTQ+ South Africans and international visitors who combine pride with a trip along the spectacular Western Cape coast.

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