Gay Ireland

LGBTQ+ Travel Guide & City Directory

🏛️ Dublin 💱 EUR 🕐 Europe/Dublin 🏳️‍🌈 Very Safe for LGBTQ+

✓ Same-sex relations legal ✓ Same-Sex Marriage ✓ Pride Events ⚖️ Same-sex marriage since 2015 (first country to approve by popular vote — 62% Yes). Full adoption rights for same-sex couples. Gender recognition via self-declaration since 2015, one of the first in the world. Conversion therapy ban enacted 2024. Comprehensive anti-discrimination protections under Employment Equality Acts and Equal Status Acts. Score: 92/100.

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Legal Status

Based on national laws as of 2025

92/100

LGBTQ+ Friendly

✓ Same-sex relations legal

✓ Equal age of consent

✓ Partnership / union

✓ Same-Sex Marriage

✓ Adoption rights

✓ Anti-Discrimination Laws

✓ Legal gender change

Ireland was the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular referendum (May 2015, 62.1% Yes). Same-sex activity decriminalised 1993. Gender Recognition Act 2015 introduced self-declaration gender change — one of the first in the world. Full adoption rights. Conversion therapy ban 2024. Comprehensive employment and service discrimination protections.