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| legal_status = Legal since 1992, age of consent equal since 2006 | adoption = Full adoption rights since 2011 | recognition_of_relationships = Civil partnerships since 2011 | military = UK military since 2000 | discrimination_protections = Sexual orientation protections (see below) }} Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the Isle of Man have become substantially more liberal since the early 1990s. Most acts of male homosexuality on the island ceased to be contrary to the law in 1992. LGBT people have been given many more rights in the law, such as an equal age of consent (2006), employment protection from discrimination (2006), gender recognition (2009), the right to enter into civil partnerships and the right to adopt children (2011). However same-sex marriage is not permitted, and some acts of male homosexuality remain a criminal offence. While not part of the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man has followed the UK's example in incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into its own laws by the ''Human Rights Act 2001''. ==Law regarding same-sex sexual activity== Prior to September 1992, same-sex sexual activity was a criminal offence. After decriminalisation, the age of consent was set at 21, which at that time was the same age as in the United Kingdom; in 2001, the age of consent for male homosexuals was lowered to eighteen by the ''Criminal Justice Act 2001 (c.4)''〔(CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 2001 )〕 In 2006, by the ''Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2006 (c.3)'', the age of consent was lowered again to sixteen, becoming gender-neutral for all sexual conduct, regardless of gender and sexual orientation.〔(SEXUAL OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2006 )〕〔(GAY SEX AGE LOWERED TO 16 )〕〔(Gay sex at 16 legal, Man )〕 However, the Isle of Man retains specific offences in its criminal law for some male homosexuality.〔Paul Johnson, (Homosexual Offenses and Human Rights in Isle of Man ), jurist.org, accessed 14 January 2013〕 Section 9 of the Sexual Offences Act 1992 continues to apply the criminal law to some "unnatural offenses" between men. Sub-sections (1) and (4) make "buggery" and "gross indecency" between men offences if one or both of the parties is under sixteen and also if the acts are committed "elsewhere than in private." The meaning of this is defined in Section 10: not in private means that "more than two persons are present" or that the location is "any place to which the public have or are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise."〔〔(SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT 1992 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LGBT rights in the Isle of Man」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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