In March 2013 LGL started the implementation of the project Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly for LGBT community through strategic litigation and advocacy. Strategic Litigation Process for the Right to Organize the Baltic Pride 2013 March for Equality Documentation Report is one of the results in the course

LGL welcomes Government’s decision to reject a proposal to ban gender reassignment

In November 2012 three members from the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (i.e. A. Matulas, V. M. Čigrijienė and A. Dumčius) submitted a draft amendment to the Civil Code, prohibiting gender reassignment surgeries in Lithuania. According to the Civil Code, an unmarried adult person is entitled to undergo gender reassignment surgery if it is

Donate for legal battle to ensure LGBT freedom of expression in Lithuania

The Lithuanian Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics, an agency established under the supervision of the country’s Parliament, has ruled that the state-run Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) did not violate any laws when it decided to limit public broadcasting of two television ads promoting the Baltic Pride March for Equality in July, 2013. The Board of

Group of members in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have criticized several legislative initiatives as homophobic and allegedly infringing upon fundamental freedoms of LGBT* people as well as promoting discrimination. The Lithuanian Parliament is to consider four homophobic or transphobic legislative initiatives in its autumn session: a total ban on gender

LGL to protest against freedom of expression restrictions in Lithuania

On the morning of the 2nd of October, a protest action of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights activists will be held before the start of the informal meeting of European Union Ministers for Culture and Audiovisual Affairs. In this way, national LGBT rights association LGL will express its view on the discriminating Russian

Ethics Office rules on censorship of Baltic Pride TV ads

The Lithuanian Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics, an agency established under the supervision of the country’s parliament, has ruled that the state-run Lithuanian Radio and Television did not violate any laws when it decided to limit public broadcasting of two television ads promoting the Baltic Pride march in July, 2013. The brief clips were filmed

Lithuanian gay league (LGL), logo

Association “Lithuanian Gay League” (LGL) is of a position that the refusal by the Vilnius City Municipality not to allow for the Baltic Pride 2013 March for Equality to proceed on the Gediminas Avenue constitutes disproportionate limitation on the exercise of the right to peaceful assembly by the local LGBT* community, thus constituting the actual

The European Commission has published its latest survey on discrimination in the EU, including on grounds of sexual orientation and for the first time gender identity. No significant change has been recorded in the last three years. 46% of respondents across the EU think gay, lesbian and bisexual people face discrimination, while 46% think they

Paedophilia and homosexuality are linked, say right-wing MEPs

2010 07 01 PRESS RELEASE By The European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights BRUSSELS, 1 July 2010 — At today’s parliamentary hearing on the sexual abuse of children, organised in the European Parliament by the European People’s Party (EPP), individual right-wing MEPs expressed the view that paedophilia was connected to homosexuality. Vytautas Landsbergis, EPP Member

MEDIA RELEASE By ILGA-Europe Today the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgement in the case of Schalk and Kopf v. Austria and ruled that Austria did not breach Article 12 (right to marry) by not allowing a same-sex couple to marry. Nevertheless, three out of the seven judges were of the opinion that

LGL urges Equal Opportunities Ombudsman to help trans people

Press release 2010 01 19 Association Lithuanian Gay League addressed the Equal Opportunities Ombudsman of Lithuania Ausrine Burneikiene with a letter urging to take action on discrimination of trans people and include their issues in implementation of equal opportunities politics in Lithuania. European Court of Human Rights repeatedly acknowledged in its case-law that 14 article of

Press release by the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) 2 December 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On Tuesday the Lithuanian Parliament started discussing the draft Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information and began to argue on the issue of sexual minorities. Even thought the purpose of the law is to