On 22 October, the conference “A Bridge to Work for LGBTI+ People” was broadcast from Vilnius. It concluded “Connecting the Dots”, a two-year EU co-funded project, yet its main message was not about endings. It was about the fact that a bridge to work has to rest on solid economic and social foundations. Monday morning
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On 22 October 2026, the Connecting the Dots project brings its two years of work to a close with a final conference streamed live on LinkedIn and YouTube. The day is called “Building a Bridge to Employment for LGBTI+ People”. It will show what can happen when LGBTI+ organisations, employment services and inclusive employers start
Married trans people in Lithuania are being denied access to gender-affirming healthcare because of their marital status, and trans people with a migration background are among those hit hardest. On 25 September 2026, the National LGBT Rights Organization LGL sent a formal appeal to the Ministry of Health, calling for clear non-discrimination rules in the
In the same week of September 2026, the parliaments of Latvia and Lithuania both advanced proposals to narrow constitutional protection for families. Neither proposal is law yet. Both are timed to elections, and both aim at the same target: the legal recognition of same-sex couples and their children. For LGBTIQ people across the Baltics, this
In the spring of 2027 (proposed date – March 7), Lithuanians will elect 60 mayors and their municipal councils. But the sponsors of an anti-gender initiative want voters to answer a second question on the same day: whether the Constitution should be rewritten so that same-sex couples and rainbow families no longer count as families
Mark your calendar. On 22 October 2026, LGL and our partners bring the Connecting the Dots project to a close with a hybrid final event, streamed live on LinkedIn, and you’re invited! Over the past two years, Connecting the Dots has worked to open doors to meaningful employment for LGBTI+ people in Lithuania and Bulgaria
Together with ILGA World, LGL has filed a stakeholder submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review, ahead of Lithuania’s fourth-cycle review in 2027. The submission assesses Lithuania’s record on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics from January 2022 to June 2026. Every UN member state has its human
Less than two months after LGL formally urged Minister of the Interior Vladislav Kondratovič to end the automatic disqualification of trans persons from police service, the Ministry has circulated a draft order amending the Health Status Requirements Code (Sveikatos būklės reikalavimų sąvadas), the legal act governing fitness assessments for statutory service. The draft, dated 29
Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) brought together more than 20 LGBTIQ+ community members, activists, and allies for a Foresight Workshop, a participatory day of imagining what Lithuania could look like in 2040 if queer people were not just surviving, but staying, creating, and thriving. The workshop was the Lithuanian chapter of QuCeer Future, an EU-funded project (CERV
Lithuania’s Court of Appeal has acquitted MEP Petras Gražulis on charges of inciting contempt against LGBTI people, overturning his October 2025 conviction and €10,000 fine. The case stemmed from 26 May 2022, when Gražulis confronted LGBTI activists outside the Seimas after a vote backing a civil-union bill, calling them “degenerates” and using other slurs. Five people
A judgment that cites Strasbourg extensively, ignores Luxembourg entirely, and tells an EU Member State’s clinical institutions that their only accountability mechanism no longer works. On 24 March 2026, the Supreme Court of Lithuania handed a senior psychiatrist his job back. Aleksandras Alekseičikas, head of the Borderline Conditions Unit at the Vilnius City Mental Health
On 15 March 2026, the Seimas sent back for revision a set of amendments to the Law on Equal Opportunities prepared by the Ministry of Social Security and Labour (SADM) – amendments that, among other things, would for the first time have explicitly added gender identity, gender expression, other sex characteristics and skin colour to