Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Syria face serious legal challenges which are not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

In Ba'athist Syria (1963–2024), Article 520 of the penal code of 1949 prohibited "carnal relations against the order of nature", and it was punishable with a prison sentence of up to three years.

[citation needed] Vigilante executions, beatings, and torture against LGBT people occur frequently in Syria, including attacks by the rebel group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham[3][4] and the Islamic State.

Miral Bioredda, a secular leader of the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, said, "Personally I see homosexuality as a private matter.

Nasradeen Ahme, a member of the Free Syrian Army which strived to topple the government of Bashar al-Assad, said "If I was in charge I would enforce tougher laws against homosexuals.

[17] In 2005, the Deputy Minister of Religious Endowments publicly stated that HIV/AIDS was divine punishment for people who engaged in fornication and homosexuality.

[18] However, Non-governmental organizations estimate that there are actually at least five times as many, and the United Nations chastised the government for its ineffective prevention methods.

[2] In July 2017, a Syrian young man residing in Germany named Abdulrahman Akkad published a live video on Facebook, in which he announced his sexual orientation and that his family was pressuring him to marry against his will.

[27][28] "One of you", or in Arabic "واحد منكن" (wahid minkun), is a social media movement that started on Facebook in 2020, then moved to Twitter for easier recognition.

It started with university students painting the LGBT flag colors on their fingers, with the hashtag #oneofyou on their hands.

Most people who started the trend used fake social media accounts to post the pictures, out of fear of being recognized.