While Lithuania is often criticised for homophobic laws and attitudes, her big cities are taking their own initiative to change the country’s course for a more progressive and inclusive society. Wednesday, June 21, a Friendly Vilnius map was issued and 20.000 free copies distributed across the city. This is the 5th edition of the map, a project which has been highlighting LGBT friendly establishments since 2012. […]
Lithuania’s conservative MP Rokas Žilinskas passed away in the Vilnius University’s Santaros Clinic after a complicated disease, Gabrielius Landsbergis, the head of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, confirmed to BNS. […]
IDAHOT (International Day of Homophobia and Transphobia), celebrated around the world on May 17, was also commemorated by the most prestigious Lithuanian institutions. In addition to Vilnius Town Hall being lit up in the colours of the rainbow, the gallery of the Lithuanian Parliament hosted an exhibition of Lithuanian LGBT+ community portraits taken by Samanta Matuizaitė (ARCANA FEMINA), organisers announced in a press release. […]
At Lithuanian parliamentarians’ initiative, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has condemned persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons by Chechen authorities and called for an investigation into the matter. […]
Around 2,000 people joined the pride march For Equality on the Gediminas avenue in Vilnius on Saturday in a massive show of support to the Lithuanian LGBT community.
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The Baltic Pride LGBT festival kicked off on Wednesday and will culminate in a pride parade in Vilnius.
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An attack in a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, shocked the world just one week before an LGBT pride event in Lithuania. Some of the reactions to the news from Orlando made it clear that homophobia is still a huge problem in the country.
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Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius and Vilnius City Mayor Remigijus Šimašius laid flowers outside the US Embassy in Vilnius on Monday in sign of tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting. […]
Representatives from 12 foreign embassies, including five ambassadors will participate in the LGBT Baltic Pride parade which will take place in Vilnius on June 18. The chairman of the Lithuanian Gay League board Vladimir Simonko […]
The management of the Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre refused demands on Monday from the Lithuanian Russian Union to ban am LGBT event, Pride Voices, from taking place in the theatre building. A petition with 5,000 […]
Tomas Raskevičius, an LGBT policy coordinator at the Lithuanian Gay League, spoke about the issues facing the LGBT community in Lithuania and some of the community’s goals. […]
A social media campaign by young Lithuanian filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas raised €900 to help two young gay men who had been kicked out of their homes in Panevėžys by their parents. […]
Almost 200 participants are gathering 60 kilometers from Vilnius for Sapfo Fest, Lithuania’s third annual grassroots LBTQI (lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) festival meeting on the grounds of Šironija, a country homestead in Papiškiai, from 25 to 27 July. […]
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