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Contents:

• THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022
• LITHUANIA: PROTTERS ATTACK UNTRY'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
• HIGH COURT REVERS LHUANIA GAY PRI BAN
• VLENCE AT LHUANIA'S FIRST GAY PRI PARA
• LHUANIAN URT BANS GAY PRI MARCH VILNI
• GAY LIFE LHUANIA
• AMNTY INTERNATNAL DEMANDS LHUANIAN PRINT SUPPORT ‘GAY PRI’ MARCH

THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022

The anizatn said March that no longer wanted policians and polil lears to downtown Charlottetown para to celebrate gay muny set for July 29The streets of downtown Charlottetown were full of supporters hoistg and wearg rabow lours durg P. As they enjoyed the floats and affirmatns of support for LGBTQ+ persons, they also ponred polil headwds facg gay and trans Amerins portns of the the rner of Bnswick Street and Park Avenue Rochter, llege stunts cheered the Pri Para om their porch Saturday afternoon, watchg the last of the floats and marchers.

”-- Maryann BatllePri Para: A superhero for a dayPayton Barn, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe at the 2023 Rochter Pri Para, is a gay Black man livg Rochter.

But you have to be you, no matter what, Barn Barn held a cellphone toward the Pri Para and shared a livtream of the joyful marchg happeng down Park, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe, is a gay Black man livg Rochter.

LITHUANIA: PROTTERS ATTACK UNTRY'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

-- Maryann BatllePri Para float honors memory of advote Dick JackmanA Rochter Pri Para 2023 float honored gay rights advote Dick Jackman, who was born Buffalo and lived Rochter and died 2016.

HIGH COURT REVERS LHUANIA GAY PRI BAN

Rabow balloons, a huge Pri flag wh a sey face and a thatch beach umbrella were among the r of a para float honor of gay rights advote Dick Jackman. BUDAPEST, July 15 (Rters) - Thoands of Hungarians braved srchg heat for the annual Pri march Budapt on Saturday, prottg agast ernment ntrols over public displays by the LGBT Mister Viktor Orban's ernment promot a Christian-nservative agenda and 2021 banned "display and promotn of homosexualy" books and films accsible by unr-18s spe strong cricism om rights groups and the European Unn. "But unfortunately I have to say that beg proud of beg gay is not as accepted Hungary as the Wt.

REUTERS/Bernatt SzaboNeher anisers nor the ernment gave a number for the marchers, though wns timated about 10, ads for the Pri para were only allowed to be aired late at night, wh most channels not takg the risk at all, Hungarian news se this week, Hungary's send-largt bookseller received a rerd fe for sellg a book that picts homosexualy whout closed Friday, the embassi of the Uned Stat, Germany and 36 other untri urged Hungary to protect LGBT rights and scrap discrimatory laws. “A group of naked men participated the Seattle Gay Pri para – exposg themselv to small children along the para route, ” said nservative rad host Todd Starn a post. The 28th annual event as the untry’s laws, which ban the pictn of homosexualy or genr transn, to mors unr 18 have begun to be applied wh creasg regulary, rultg f and other penalti for those who dissemate LGBTQ+ ntent.

David Vig, director at Amnty Internatnal Hungary, said that ntrast to some untri Wtern Europe and North Ameri where Pri events are celebratns of LGBTQ+ history and culture, Budapt Pri is a way of prottg creasg crackdowns on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. Europe is set to explo wh LGBTQ+ energy this June as Gay Pri events kick off ci across the of the vibrant celebratns are returng after beg ncelled for two years nng amid the ronavis panmic.

VLENCE AT LHUANIA'S FIRST GAY PRI PARA

Followg the para, many participants will head to Via San Gvanni Laterano, dubbed Rome’s gay street, to ntue celebratg s many gay bars and clubs will host special events that extend the ftivi well to the night when the whole street normally be one big open air party. Cologne Gay Pri Cologne, GermanyJune 18th-July 3rdOne of the biggt LGBTQ+ events Europe tak place each year this historic German cy. Cologne Gay Pri is the biggt LGBTQ+ celebratn Germany and will beg mid June this events will last a ltle over two weeks and will clu sports tournaments, nferenc, readgs and lots of ma events will take place durg the first weekend of July.

In a gture of solidary wh Ukrae, the participants of both events will march together Equaly Para, which has been held the pal sce 2001, is the largt gay pri para central Europe.

LHUANIAN URT BANS GAY PRI MARCH VILNI

VILNIUS, Lhuania — A group of protters tried to dispt Lhuania’s send gay pri para ever on Saturday, fyg an enormo police prence by throwg eggs at marchers and attemptg to storm a stage.

GAY LIFE LHUANIA

Several hundred gay rights activists took to the grand ma street of Vilni to show their pri, wavg Lhuanian and rabow-lored flags, wh some standg on top of b cked out lorful balloons. Augtas Didzgalvis, APAn elrly protter shouts at police protectg a gay pri para downtown Vilni, Lhuania on Saturday. Augtas Didzgalvis, APLhuanian anti-gay lawmaker Petras Grazulis g a loudspeaker shouts anti-gay slogans durg a gay pri para Vilni, Lhuania on Saturday.

Among them was Petras Grazulis, an anti-gay lawmaker who rallied protters wh a bullhorn. The para, dubbed “the March for Equaly, ” is only the send such event for Lhuania, a predomantly Catholic natn of 3 ln people that activists say has not done enough to ensure gay, lbian, and transgenr rights.

Large segments of the populatn Lhuania, along wh other areas of the former Soviet Unn, are opposed to the ia of equal rights for gay people. In Rsia, an unsanctned gay rights rally May rulted clash, wh police tag some 30 people, while Ukrae held s first-ever gay pri march amid a large police ntgent need to protect the small group of activists. Many feel the unrt Lhuania, which is currently headg the EU’s rotatg princy, is particularly troublg sce the Baltic state, along wh neighbors Latvia and Estonia, ntu to discrimate agast gays and lbians spe havg unrgone tense polil and enomic tegratn wh Wtern Europe over the past two s.

AMNTY INTERNATNAL DEMANDS LHUANIAN PRINT SUPPORT ‘GAY PRI’ MARCH

Andrew Garfield nonts backlash over mg that Spir-Man uld be gay. Retired Methodist misters say they’ll break Church l and perform gay weddgs. reversed a lower urt lg that banned a gay pri para om.