Lhuania set to legalise gay civil partnerships next year, says LGBT+ lawmaker | Rters

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• LHUANIA SET TO LEGALISE GAY CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS NEXT YEAR, SAYS LGBT+ LAWMAKER
• THE LONG JOURNEY OUT OF THE CLOSET FOR LHUANIA’S GAY MUNY
• WILL THE MAJOR VICTORY MATė V. LHUANIA CONVCE SEIMAS TO REPEAL THE “ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA” PROVISN?

LHUANIA SET TO LEGALISE GAY CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS NEXT YEAR, SAYS LGBT+ LAWMAKER

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THE LONG JOURNEY OUT OF THE CLOSET FOR LHUANIA’S GAY MUNY

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WILL THE MAJOR VICTORY MATė V. LHUANIA CONVCE SEIMAS TO REPEAL THE “ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA” PROVISN?

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(Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Lhuania looks set to legalise same-sex civil partnerships next year, but gay marriage uld be up to a away, acrdg to the untry’s only openly LGBT+ lawmaker - elected this year after appearg on the mpaign trail full Baltic natn’s nstutn says marriage n only be between a man and a woman, and Tomas Raskevici said a nstutnal amendment allowg same-sex marriage would stggle to ga enough support the next few is nfint, however, that registered partnerships for same-sex upl will bee law before the next parliamentary electn due 2024. Although gay sex was legalised 1993, mon wh many other former Soviet untri, LGBT+ people are still unable to adopt children and a law preventg the discsn of homosexualy wh mors remas on the statute “Protectn of Mors” law is beg nsired by the European Court of Human Rights, but Raskevici said was his “prcipal posn... “We get to this vic circle bee LGBT people don’t have the chance to e out and then society don’t have the chance to meet them real life, and then they hold certa negative stereotyp about this muny, ” Raskevici DRAGLhuania’s first openly gay MP was Rokas Zilskas, who died 2017, but Raskevici was the first to clare his sexualy before enterg the untry’s only openly LGBT+ lawmaker, Raskevici - who donned drag as he nvassed support for October’s electn to challenge “stereotyp about LGBT people” - regnis the need to be a role he remas a reluctant one.