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
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March 11, 2026. Lithuania celebrates 36 years of freedom from a system that used state institutions to enforce ideological conformity. That same week, a group of MPs filed bills to embed a single ideological vision of family into every classroom in the country. Months earlier, in January, the Justice Vice-Minister was in Madrid defending the
LGL Executive Director Vladimir Simonko and Project Manager Monika Antanaitytė joined forces with partners European Pride Business Network and Forbidden Colours for a high-level advocacy missions in Brussels on February 2-4, 2026. The two missions brought together EU policymakers to demonstrate that defending LGBTIQ+ rights is an integral part of the EU’s role in a
Klaipėda district mayor Bronius Markauskas says that he himself will not support the initiative of the Lithuanian Family Movement to adopt a declaration “On stopping genderism propaganda and LGBTQ+ ideology in the municipality” and will urge his colleagues not to support it as well, BNS reports. Lithuanian Family Movement (Lietuvos šeimų sąjūdis) is a non-governmental organization closely allied