Surprisg History of First Unrground Gay Clubs Lhuania - LGL

Contents:

• THE BEST VILNI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS VILNI
• THE BEST LHUANIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LHUANIA
• GAY VILNI
• WEIRST, MOST ENTERTAG, FUNNIT GAY CLUB EXPERIENCE MY LIFE
• SURPRISG HISTORY OF FIRST UNRGROUND GAY CLUBS LHUANIA
• GAY LIFE LHUANIA
• GAY MUNICH
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL

THE BEST VILNI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS VILNI

Sixteen years after Lhuania liberated self om Soviet shackl, the hardly-risque Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (ILGA) announced they will hold their annual European nference Vilni. This opn is more mon than not the Baltic untri where homophobia remas firmly entrenched, ntrast to Wtern Europe where gays and lbians have bee visible, if not fully accepted, members of society.

Perhaps the most shockg factoid me om a 2003 poll which revealed that 68% of Lhuanians would prefer to live next door to a dg aler or nvicted crimal than a homosexual. " This wispread and stutnalised homophobia mak almost impossible for gay Lhuanians to reveal their sexual orientatn (no Lhuanian celebry or public figure has ever e out as openly gay). That such an anisatn - workg towards the regnn and acceptance of gays LT - is forced to operate wh such extreme discretn speaks volum about the current stat of homosexuals the untry.

Regardls of public reactn to this event, the ftival is a major step towards creatg solidary wh Vilni' gay and lbian muny, enuragg muny awarens and slowg wearg down Lhuania's evasn of homosexual issu. Wh Rabow Days as a primer for the nference, lol and European anisatns should have a better ia of how ready and willg Lhuania is to face the gay skeleton s closet, and how bt to support s 'g out.

THE BEST LHUANIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LHUANIA

For gay travellers to Vilni, the cy has snt offergs terms of gay-iendly nightlife, wh only one official gay club (perhaps the only all of Lhuanian), but 's a doozy.

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GAY VILNI

A lot of young handsome people, mostly gay and bisexual boys and mens, addn som lbian girls an dwimens, and some one who has not sid yet, or are cure for what they want. Please be assured, that gay people, along wh their straight iends, will never stop fightg for equaly and for the realisatn that is not a bad thg to love someone of the same sex.

I have personally enuntered an unpleasant scene sna when a young fay wh children were forced to leave bee gay uple were almost havg sex there takg no regard of the others.

Their sexualy do not ncern me and should not ncern the rt of the world, and I'm happy that they are happy beg hont lovg people but I do not feel right to let them ignore certa society l jt bee they are gay.

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Comg om Lhuania, I do feel the public opposn towards homosexualy as such; neverthels, I unrstand that two different sets of valu are juxtaposed: the ncept of personal eedom to live cently and tradnal fay valu which the image of homosexualy do not promote. While the society is very plex and diverse, the qutns to ask is what homosexuals want to monstrate by marchg the streets, and whether is effective changg the attu homophob. ankly, what do you thk, if you wre gayish ments here, won't there be more tourists Vilni who are sick of perverts, than there would be gays and their supporters overall?

SURPRISG HISTORY OF FIRST UNRGROUND GAY CLUBS LHUANIA

OPEN that pathetic closed md of yours and face embrace realy and the very lovely people and MY iends that are gay and thank god for them and the add diversy of life. I wish people would wake up if ure christan or relig then read God ma man and woman to have children to give birth to life like the earth but re now we are killg the earth but we are supposed to be the keepers of earth u are supposed to love everyone no matter who or wat they are if u dont then God n hate u if u hate this then i n i hate u an eye for eye basilly the only thg that homosexuals are dog wrong is not givg life thats all if u have sex for fun thats lt which is a s u have sex for the creatn of children this is my pot not ur so believe eat u want to believe. well i dont re about gay people, s not like they h on any random du, theyre basilly chicks their own md, except they have dicks lol aslong as they dont say anythg to me, i dont re about them and them gettg married, s not like jt bee s ok to be gay, im gonna go gay, no way, im all about psy.

Many Lhuanians who have worked the UK, where LGBT people are more accepted, have worked wh gays, noticed they are no different to straights, and lost their homophobic opns.

Gay rights activists and anizers are vilified Catholic Vilni; meanwhile, largely Catholic Mexi has legalized same sex marriage and Brazilian megapolis San Paolo hosted the world's largt pri event wh over three ln participants early June.

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I n't say that is a "very good club", 's really all about the experience of seeg a gay club an ex-URSS untry and disverg that the lols are jt startg to build their gay muny. Vladimir Simonko, Executive Director of LGL, and Eduardas Platovas, former edor of a magaze for homosexual people “Amsterdamas” agreed to tell 15m about how Lhuanian homosexual people had fun at the end of the 20th century and how clubs for members of sexual mori were beg created. Everythg began wh a hoe NemenčėAfter rtoratn of pennce the muny, which only existed unrground back then, sce homosexualy was crimalized only 1993, started lookg for gatherg first of them, acrdg to E.

Simonko tells, that the answer is y, but there were some important nuanc: ‘’It was dangero, sce many gangs would beat up people, who were lookg strange to them’’ the biggt ncert hall Vilni – to the gay clubUnrground gay parti attracted foreign celebri as well. One of the parti held the Palace of the Tra Unns was vised by the lear of synthpop group ‘’Bronski Beat’’ Jimmy the end of the 20th century the mic of ‘’Bronski Beat’’ was popular not only among the the homosexuals.

Platovas draws attentn to an oxymoron – now, when the life of the LGBT muny is bee better and easier, the number of gay clubs is signifintly lower than ever Vilni there is an only LGBT club, which is open for only two days a week. The same suatn stands for non-heterosexual visors to Knas, who may fd difficult to believe that the send cy of an EU member state currently obssed wh s forthg stat as European Capal of Culture still don’t posss a permanent gay bar or club.

GAY MUNICH

Here is one of those former Soviet bloc untri where morn “Gay Life Lhuania” is nflict wh old tradns as the untry emerg om the reprsive mentaly that stigmatized and crimalized homosexualy. The ntroversy about gay rights and discrimatn has rulted a legislative ‘war’ between Lhuanian prejudicial anti-gay statut and the European Unn’s standards of tolerance and equaly.

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Sce the passg of a homophobic law July 2009 that was tend to protect mors om the negative effects of public rmatn–cludg so-lled “advertisg of homosexual, bisexual and polygamo relatns”–crics and fenrs have stumbled over then difficult issue of public homosexualy Lhuania. The article pertag to the ban on homosexual advertisg, orr, supposedly, to protect mors, will be replaced by a ban on all rmatn which would promise sexual tegry, particularly that of young children.

When puti adopt homo-phobic laws, there are no assuranc that the groups of hate-mongers won’t terpret this as a ll to act”, he hammers out, alarmed at the cisns beg ma by legislators. “The visible cizens”, as they are termed by the soclogists who thored a large-sle survey on homophobia Lhuania, are subject to several forms of discrimatn, most notably the workplace.

He claims to have recently been a victim of discrimatn when he requted a day off to participate the ILGA Conference of the European Associatn of Homosexuals, held Vilni 2007, and thereby revealed his sexual orientatn.

THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

Given the suatn, as Vladimir Simonko remarks, many young homosexual Lhuanians “seek out plac where they are safe to exprs themselv whout discrimatn and where they n be themselv, whout hidg nor lyg, and where they n image a future”. Aramantas wrote this reactn to the problems of Lhuania and pared s relig fluence to other Catholic untri: “Gay rights activists and anizers are vilified Catholic Vilni; meanwhile, largely Catholic Mexi has legalized same sex marriage and Brazilian megapolis San Paolo hosted the world’s largt pri event wh over three ln participants early June. And fally, Jonas had this to say: “I saw Gay Pri 2010 Vilni and was very strange; a small, shy monstratn wh mostly foreign people, cludg Polish supporters, lookg like a prott of workers at a supermarket.

Durg that mpaign members of Lhuanian Parliament were asked to state their opns regardg the harsh posn of Lhuanian Catholic church hierarchy that claims “homosexualy is a perversn”.

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Lhuanian Gay League is a natnal nonprof, nonernmental anizatn ung homosexual, bisexual, and transgenr persons, a member of the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (ILGA) sce 1994. The mon tert is to abolish discrimatn and the equaly of lbian, gay and bisexual persons the area of employment and enablg LGBT persons to work unr circumstanc that are equal to their lleagu.

Dpe several charg at the barris and smoke bombs, plastic bottl and unoked ssag thrown at police by the anti-gay protters, there was no vlence only 12 arrts, which clud several members of parliament. There had been mors origatg om the Interim Prosecutor General Raimondas Petrskas that anti-gay radils would attack the participants upon entrance and ex to the para, but when the b rolled up to the perimeter of the fenced area, only the teal fatigu of the Vilni police force uld be seen. Seimas member Rokas Žilskas was posg for the meras wh the huge rabow flag and told Baltic Reports that although he had been skeptil at first, he was out mpaigng for human rights, not only gay rights.

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