Gabon has wavered on whether to decriminalize homosexuality or not. Modern Gabon had never criminalized gay sex until 2019, when it enacted a law providing up to six months in prison for same-sex intimacy. In 2020, it repealed that law, decriminalizing homosexuality. After a coup in August 2023, the issue is alive again. Gabon’s laws are based on a transition charter currently in force that limits marriage to the “union of two people of different sexes” but does not explicitly prohibit homosexual intercourse. Some influential people are calling on the current regime to move Gabon back to criminalizing gay sex.