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Contents:

• GAY GUI LHUANIA
• GAY VILNI
• LHUANIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023
• GAY VILNIUS
• GAY LATVIA TRAVEL GUI
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS VILNI
• GAY IENDLY HOTELS LHUANIA
• GAY UPLE TRAVELG TO VILNI, LHUANIA - LHUANIA FOM
• GAY SVENTOJI

GAY GUI LHUANIA

The law prohibs any rmatn that uld enurage homosexual, bisexual or polygamo relatnships. In 2015, Parliament's Legal Affairs Commtee found that the Lhuanian Constutn do not explicly exclu homosexuals om registered partnerships. The Lhuanian Defence Mister Juozas Olekas neverthels clarified a letter that the army is open to heterosexuals and homosexuals and that there is no discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.

There are creasg efforts to lim the rights of homosexuals, so that Lhuania has been asked by the European Human Rights Council to change s legal policy. The gay scene Vilni is small, but has s own charm, like most aspects of the cy and the untry.

Small gay muni n also be found the ci of Knas and Klaipėda. And not Vilni, which has currently hosted more anti-gay monstratns than tolerant on.

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Above: Please sert image om 2007's gay pri rally 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. In rponse to the news, an anti-homosexual monstratn was swiftly anised September an attempt to prevent such blasphemy.

One participant, speakg out agast homosexuals, said, "Of urse, they will soon anise a march Vilni and therefore we need to ensure advance will not be possible.

LHUANIA GAY TRAVEL - LGBT RMATN AUGT 2023

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. Dpe Lhuania's entry to the EU, gay visors to Vilni should not expect the same social acceptance as most EU natns.

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Here, homosexualy is still soundly nmned by every major social stutn om the ernment to the Church to the mass media. The answer, as the article would overtly expla, was gays and Jewish people.

In fact, homophobic jok and allns are monplace Vilni' prs, where daily tabloid Vakaro Zs ('The Eveng News') routely refers to gays as 'chickenpricks.

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. Unr Stal, after all, 'no one was homosexual' and 'sex did not exist.

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' Homosexualy was a crime (much more dangero than dg-alg apparently) and punished as such. Until 1993, was still illegal to be homosexual Lhuania, and the law was only then repealed bee of prsure om the Council of Europe, which Lhuania was tryg to jo. Many olr Lhuanians ntue to view homosexualy as an illns.

" 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). As a rult, Vilni' gay and lbian muny is rather small, wh few people brave enough to speak about their orientatn.

Young people are creasgly open to alternative liftyl and gay travellers needn't worry (for the most part) about beg pummeled on the streets.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS VILNI

Lol anisatns like the Lhuanian Lbian and Gay League (LLGL) have been quietly meetg and orchtratg sensisatn mpaigns, semars and bat for over a .

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.

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In May 2007, Vilni will utly host s first-ever gay pri event, Rabow Days.

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. 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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A sprawlg unrground ee-for-all of forbidn pleasur, Men's Factory may do more for Vilni' gay e than any other lol anisatn. Certaly unmatched as a meetg/mglg pot, Men's Factory has proven that there is an active, growg homosexual muny Vilni.

Still, Men's Factory is tillatg, harmls fun Wednday through Saturday - and you don't have to be gay to go (but that's the centive). If you know of other particularly gay-iendly plac Vilni, please let know; and feel ee to post your ments about gay Vilni on this page below.

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We enurage different viewpots and want to hear your thoughts about the gay e Vilni.

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