Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the Ivory Coast face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents.

However, in March 2010, while attending the United Nations Human Right Council Universal Periodic Review, the representative of Ivory Coast stated that they would begin, "to take measures to ensure non-discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity", but that they would not start "awareness-raising programs" because it was not a "current priority".

[3] The U.S. Department of State's 2011 Human Rights Report found that,[6] There was no official discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, statelessness, or access to education or health care.

Gay men were reportedly subjected to beatings, imprisonment, verbal abuse, humiliation, and extortion by police, gendarmes, and members of the armed forces.

During the year the Force Republiques de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI) reportedly beat and abused gay men and transgender persons, most of them sex workers.