The Lithuanian Seimas’ Committee on Legal Affairs decided on Wednesday that the legalization of same-sex partnership would not contradict the Lithuanian Constitution, Stasys Šedbaras, the committee’s deputy chairman, says. […]
In a gala ceremony on Tuesday night, national awards were handed out to individuals, organizations and initiatives that contributed most to promoting equality and diversity in Lithuania. The annual event was organized by the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson‘s Office and a forum of seven NGOs for the second time to recognize achievements in eight categories. […]
The first ever non-Lithuanian national on the Vilnius City Council reveals to the Lithuania Tribune why he ran for office. […]
Vilnius mayor-elect Remigijus Šimašius says he sees no problems with allowing LGBt pride events to be held in the centre of the Lithuanian capital, something that has provoked legal clashes in earlier years. […]
Lithuania’s representative at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Karolina Bubnytė has urged state institutions to focus its efforts on the implementation of the court’s rulings on sex change surgeries and the right for ousted president Rolandas Paksas to run for elections. […]
Amid the European Commission’s (EC) analysis whether the Lithuanian Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information is in line with the European Union (EU) law, a group of MEPs on Thursday criticized the Baltic state for the continuing discrimination of LGBTI people. […]
Lithuania’s controversial law aimed at protecting minors from public information deemed harmful to their development has once again appeared under the radar of European Union (EU) institutions. The law, which says that minors should not be exposed to information denigrating “family values”, is said to discriminate against LGBT people. […]
Seventy-nine percent of people in Lithuania still say they oppose legislation instituting same-sex partnership. But the number of those in support has doubled over the last year to 15 percent, a survey has revealed on Thursday. […]
On 30 January 2015, the National LGBT* Rights Organization LGL and the Swedish Embassy in Vilnius organized a meeting to discuss preparations for this year’s celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) in Lithuania. The meeting was hosted in the residence of the Swedish ambassador and attended by more than thirty ambassadors and representatives of the civil society. […]
Member of the Lithuanian Parliament Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas has publicly warned the leader of LGL, a Lithuanian LGBT* rights NGO, that the organization is “playing with fire” and that its activities might result in a “black, repulsive and totally unacceptable response” similar to that which “happened in Paris.” The statement by the MP was issued as a response to the organization’s humourous suggestion to use 10-litas notes, that have been taken out of circulation, as LGBT* souvenirs. […]
The Lithuanian Gay League, an LGBT rights NGO, has had an idea to keep some of the 10-litas notes and make them into souvenirs for their partners. […]
Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court found no legal grounds for court hearing of the Lithuanian Gay League‘s complaint over the conclusion of the Office of the Journalists Ethics Inspector. […]
The Order and Justice party has nominated Member of Parliament Petras Gražulis to run for Vilnius mayor‘s office. […]
The Union of Lithuanian Psychologists has issued a statement, criticizing a ban on airing a social video ad about LGBT rights on television. Broadcasters have refused to air the video, saying it would violate a controversial minors protection law, but psychologists claim censorship of this kind is what does harm to children rather than messages on LGBT people. […]
Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament leader of the Labour party Loreta Graužinienė has said that Latvia’s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, who had come out publicly as gay last week, should have disclosed his sexual orientation prior to assuming the post. […]
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics came out as gay on Thursday, stirring reactions across the Baltics. Lithuanian foreign minister congratulated his colleague, while a human rights activist says the step could encourage change in Lithuania as well. […]
The Lithuanian filmmaker who opened his tuxedo shirt to expose a Free Pussy Riot T-shirt when he walked the red carpet at the 2013 Moscow International Film Festival is unbuttoning again. On Monday Romas Zabarauskas revealed that he disrobed to finance his next feature length film, You Can’t Escape Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian Gay League said on Wednesday it had turned to the European Commission over restrictions in Lithuania to air a pro-LGBT social ad. […]
A Russian sitcom actor, notorious for his anti-LGBT statements, was banned from entering Latvia for saying gay people should be burned alive, The St. Petersburg Times reports. […]
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