From June 2 to 8, 2025, Vilnius will host the Baltic Pride festival, organized by the National LGBT Rights Organization LGL. Under the slogan “Free to Be (Yourself),” the festival invites the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to come together in a week-long celebration of diversity, unity, and pride. The program includes the community space
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Vilnius is preparing for the most vibrant human rights event of the year as the Baltic Pride 2025 festival returns to the capital for the third time. On June 7, the city center will host the traditional Pride March, which is expected to attract over 20,000 participants. Among them will be members of the LGBTIQ community from Lithuania, Latvia,
On June 7, 2025, at 5:00 PM, the main Baltic Pride 2025 open-air concert will take place on the lawn near the White Bridge in Vilnius. This free event will follow the March for Equality! and will be one of the highlights of the festival. Everyone is welcome – members of the LGBT community, their allies, Vilnius residents, and visitors who support LGBT human
On June 5, the historic Vilnius Old Theatre will become a stage for artistry, courage, and diversity, where activism and creative expression come together. This is the setting for a unique event – “Pride Voices” – the Baltic Pride 2025 gala evening dedicated to amplifying and celebrating the voices, stories, and achievements of the LGBTQ+ community. “Pride
Lithuanian Gay League has joined the European Pride Business Network (EPBN) which will soon discover the stars of LGBTIQ+ workplace equality at the EPBN-WISE Role Models Award Ceremony – a night dedicated to honoring the trailblazers shaping a more inclusive professional world. On May 9, 2025, at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, Poland, this prestigious event will bring together
The “Connecting the Dots” project, a groundbreaking initiative funded by the European Social Fund (ESF+), officially launches with a two-day kick-off meeting and design-thinking workshop in Vilnius. The project aims to address systemic barriers faced by LGBTI youth in Bulgaria and Lithuania by providing career development support and fostering inclusive workplace environments. Led by
New EU-funded study identifies systemic barriers to justice and calls for improved victim support services A comprehensive six-country study conducted by the ENACT project has uncovered significant challenges facing LGBTIQ+ hate crime victims across Europe, revealing widespread underreporting, institutional distrust, and systemic gaps in support services. The ENACT project (Enhancing the Capacity of Civil Society
Despite regional and national differences common in the European context, all four bids for the pan-European LGBTI+ event ‘EuroPride’ in 2027 are clear that protest remains at the very heart of the Pride movement, and is more important now than it has been for many years. Bids from ACOGAT Torremolinos Pride (ES), Coordinamento Torino Pride
Vilnius, 12 April 2024 Hate crime is a matter of concern across Europe and poses major challenges at social, political and legal levels. Violent behaviour motivated by prejudice based on the victim’s disability, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, sexual apathy or gender expression poses a serious threat to democratic values in European
National LGBT rights organisation LGL, organiser of the Baltic Pride and LT Pride festivals in Vilnius, has submitted a letter of intent to the Board of the European Pride Organisers Association (EPOA), expressing its intent to submit an application to EPOA for the opportunity to organise EuroPride in Vilnius in 2027. Vilnius will compete with
On 28th of July, 2023, LGL organized intersectional discussion on hate crime victim support with the cooperation of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Lithuania. A group of experts discussed the challenges of providing support to victims of hate crimes and the opportunities for improving the system of providing assistance. The meeting focused on the
On July 31st, 2023, LGL submitted a brief regarding execution of Beizaras and Levickas v. Lithuania (Application Number 41288/15) under the Rule 9.2 of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers for supervising execution of the ECtHR judgments. While LGL, which also represented applicants before national courts as well as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHtR),