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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBTQ rights taking place in the year 2024.
January
- 1 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Estonia.[1]
- 9 – Gabriel Attal is appointed Prime Minister of France, becoming the country’s first openly gay head of government.[2]
February
- 15 – Greece's Parliament passes a bill legalizing same-sex marriages by a vote of 175 to 77.[3][4]
- 16 – Greece's same-sex marriage law comes into force.
- 22 – Westlock, Alberta (Canada) gets a majority vote to ban pride flags.[5]
- 28 – The Parliament of Ghana passes a widespread anti-LGBT bill making the promotion or advocacy of LGBT rights punishable by five years in prison.[6]
- 29 – Australia's Cumberland City Council votes to ban drag queen storytime from council events.[7]
March
- 22 – The Government of New South Wales bans conversion therapy, including for citizens out of state.[8]
- 27 – The House of Representatives of Thailand passes a preliminary bill legalizing same-sex marriages by a vote of 400 to 10.[9][10]
April
- 12 – Germany's parliament passes law easing legal procedures for changing names and gender identity by a vote of 374 to 251.[11]
- 17 – Sweden's parliament passes law lowering the minimum age to legally change gender from 18 to 16 by a vote of 234 to 94.[12]
- 19 – Czech Republic, same-sex partnerships get more rights in income taxes, social security and stepchild adoptions. The reform comes into effect on 1 January 2025.[13]
- 23 – Dominica's High Court issued a ruling decriminalizing homosexual acts.[14][15]
- 27 – Iraq's parliament votes to criminalize same-sex relationships, to be punishable by a maximum of 15 years in prison.[16][17][18]
May
- 1 – The United Methodist Church (UMC) allows same-sex marriages in their churches and strikes down its 40-year ban on gay clergy.[19][20]
- 1 – Australia's Cumberland City Council votes in favour of removing books about same-sex parenting in council libraries.[21][22][23][24]
- 15 – Australia's Cumberland City Council repeals the ban on books about same-sex parenting in council libraries, passed 14 days earlier.[25][26][27]
- 16 – The Landtag of Liechtenstein repeals the ban on same-sex marriages. The bill comes into effect on January 1, 2025.[28]
June
- 18 – Senate of Thailand approves the same-sex marriage bill by a vote of 130 to 4.[29]
- 21 – Namibia's High Court issued a ruling decriminalizing homosexual acts.[30]
July
- 12 – The Supreme Court of the Netherlands rules that same-sex marriage is legal in Aruba and Curaçao.[31]
August
- 7 – The Bulgarian National Assembly votes in favor of a legislative amendment banning the teaching of LGBTQ related topics in schools.[32]
- 28 – India's Ministry of Finance issued an advisory declaring that persons from the LGBTQ community face no restrictions in opening joint bank accounts or nominating their partners as beneficiaries.[33]
September
- 17 – The Georgian Parliament votes in favor of passing laws introduced by Georgian Dream party curtailing LGBT rights.[34]
- 24 – Thailand's king has signed a marriage equality bill into law, making Thailand the first country in South East Asia to recognize same-sex marriage.[35][36]
October
- 3 – The Georgian Parliament speaker signs the anti-LGBT rights bill into law.[37]
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