The Norwegian Government makes an active effort to safeguard gay and lesbian rights, to help gays and lesbians to live openly and to counteract discrimination. It is crucial to these efforts to ensure that organizations working to protect gay and lesbian rights have a funding framework that enables them to work constructively. The Norwegian Association
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NOT PRIVATE ENOUGH? According to the pronouncements of some Lithuanian politicians and public figures, LGBT people can express their identities and sexualities only in certain places and spaces and to certain people. They must lead strictly compartmentalized private and public lives. Homosexuality is acceptable only as long as it remains private. The media analysis and
Terry Davis In 1936, the SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler created the Gestapo’s Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion. As a result, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested as homosexuals, and some 50,000 of these men were sentenced. Some spent time in regular prisons, some were forcefully castrated as an alternative to incarceration,
NORMS AT WORK: challenging homophobia and heteronormativity This book is one of two books produced by a collaborative project involving both researches and activists. The book Open Up Your Workplace presents tools that can be used by those who want to work against discrimination in the workplace. Norms at Work is a research report that
Mr Speaker, Members of Seimas, distinguished members of the Lithuanian Gay League, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for inviting me to this important press conference. I am very honoured and very moved. I have been asked to speak about the Swedish experience regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. But as this press
OPEN UP YOUR WORKPLACE: challenging homophobia and heteronormativity “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. Those are the first words in the first article of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Even though it was adopted in 1948, there are still significantly large groups of people who have
West Midlands MEP Michael Cashman has said that the decision of the mayor of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to ban the visit of a bus promoting the EU’s “For Diversity; against discrimination” campaign should give Brussels bureaucrats some insight into LGBT experiences. The diversity roadshow has been touring Europe. It is visiting 21 countries and
Michael Cashman, President of the EP Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights, highlighted that now the European Commission had become a victim, “The Commission experiences at first hand what it’s like to be gay, or lesbian, or bisexual, or transgender. The Commission now feels the force of homophobia. The Government of Lithuania must act and
Rainbow Days 2007, an event planned by homosexuals for this week in Vilnius, will not take place. The truck of the anti-discrimination campaign, which is touring Europe, will bypass the capital of Lithuania and a huge rainbow flag will not be displayed here either. Amid fears of potential unrest the government of the capital refused
The windows of the trolleybus in Kaunas with gay and lesbian sexual advertising were broken and the trolleybus in Vilnius unexpectedly broke down and did not leave the garage. The forthcoming events organized by the fighters for sexual minority rights in Vilnius may end in failure. Even the majority of the MPs do not support
An increased propagation of homosexual relations and the specific way of life of persons of such orientation was discussed at the meeting. In its documents, the Church has underlined time and again that those who are sexually attracted to people of the same sex should be respected and the Church has spoken out against their
Trolleybus No. 12, which had to advertise the rights of gays and lesbians in Vilnius, will not be in service today. Last night it was reported that it “had broken down”. In a similar way, the desire of gay people to see public transportation plastered with rainbow colours did not materialize last week in Kaunas