Queer Festival of Russia: Celebrating Identities “QueerFest”, the queer pride event of Russia, opened in St. Petersburg with a bang. Over 160 people made it, despite the last minute change of venues, attacks by provocateurs, and insults by the usual guest – Vitaly Milonov. The organizers learned of the planned actions to foil the event
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The Irish government will publish a long-awaited bill to recognize the gender of trans people by the end of 2014, it has been announced. The bill, which was first announced in June, would bring Irish law in line with that of other countries, by legally recognizing the gender of trans people in all dealings with the State,
Are you a young activist wanting to change the world? Would you like to work in a multicultural team of passionate and creative people fighting for human rights? Do you want to dive into the unknown for a period of 10 months and make awesome new friends? Do you want to get to know yourself
National LGBT* rights organization LGL would like to take an opportunity to kindly invite you to the International conference “Tackling Homophobic and Transphobic Bullying: Challenges and Effective Responses” which will take place in Vilnius on October 2, 2014. As such homophobic and transphobic bullying is a form of discrimination and exclusion. It has an impact
On September 24, 2014 the national LGBT* rights organization LGL in cooperation with the Embassy of Canada invite to participate in a meeting with Toronto university‘s PhD Candidate Michael E. Pelz. The scholar will give a public lecture on „Europeanization, National Party Systems, and LGBT Rights: Cases of Growing Divergence“ based on his doctoral research
Icelandic transgender rights activist Ugla Stefanía Jónsdóttir continues to define the challenges faced by transgender individuals across Europe. Which specific difficulties transgender teenagers have to confront? It must be really difficult to be transgender in Lithuania, because of the aforesaid law you have and the hatred towards transgender teenagers. The things that young people face
De facto Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov made the comments yesterday speaking to Interfax and Itar-Tass during a government session.He said: “We in Crimea do not need such people.”Continuing to say what would happen if the LGBT community attempted to hold a public gathering, he said: “Our police and self-defence forces will react immediately and in
A series of public events for and about transgender people, organized by the national LGBT* rights organization LGL on the 26th-28th of August 2014, were the most exciting days for transgender individuals and their allies in Lithuania. They met and interacted with each other, they laughed and shared trans*pizza together. Transgender people and their supporters
For the first time in Italian history, a court has granted permission for the adoption of a child living with a same-sex couple. The child is the biological daughter of one of the women, and her partner has been allowed to legally become her co-parent through adoption. The couple have been living together in Rome since
The invisibility of the legal problems of transgender people in Lithuania inspired national LGBT* rights organization LGL and organization “Transgender Europe” (TGEU) to hold a series of public events “Being Trans* in Europe – Attitudes, Perspectives and Challenges” on the 27th-28th of August 2014 at the premises of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)