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 drag.
Contents:
- LHUANIA SET TO LEGALISE GAY CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS NEXT YEAR, SAYS LGBT+ LAWMAKER
- THE LONG JOURNEY OUT OF THE CLOSET FOR LHUANIA’S GAY MUNY
- GAY LIFE LHUANIA
- 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
Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people Lhuania face legal and social challeng not experienced by non-LGBT cizens. Both male and female same-sex sexual activy is legal Lhuania, but neher civil same-sex partnership nor same-sex marriage is available, meang that there is no legal regnn of same sex upl. Consequently, LGBT people do not enjoy all of the rights that non-LGBT people have, and same sex upl the untry do not enjoy the same legal regnn that is given to oppose sex upl. Although homosexualy was crimalised 1993, the historic legacy of crimalisatn has rulted limed rights for LGBT people. Protectn agast discrimatn was legislated for as part of the creria for European Unn accsn, and 2010 the first gay pri para took place Vilni. Negative attus agast gay and lbian men and women rema firmly entrenched throughout the untry. Var public opn polls have found very limed support for same-sex marriage, and opposn to same-sex marriage and homosexualy general ntu to be wispread Lhuanian society. The 2015 Eurobarometer showed that 24% of Lhuanians supported same-sex marriage, among the EU's lowt percentag of support. Only Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria had lower support. EU-wi support for same-sex marriage was 61%. * gay rights in lithuania *
Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people Lhuania face legal and social challeng not experienced by non-LGBT cizens. Although homosexualy was crimalised 1993, the historic legacy of crimalisatn has rulted limed rights for LGBT people.
Protectn agast discrimatn was legislated for as part of the creria for European Unn accsn, and 2010 the first gay pri para took place Vilni. Var public opn polls have found very limed support for same-sex marriage, and opposn to same-sex marriage and homosexualy general ntu to be wispread Lhuanian society.
THE LONG JOURNEY OUT OF THE CLOSET FOR LHUANIA’S GAY MUNY
LGBT Rights Lhuania: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay rights in lithuania *
Gay Marriage⚭✖ UnregnizedChangg Genr✔ Legal, surgery not requiredNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyMilary✖ Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedConversn Therapy✖ Not banned.
GAY LIFE LHUANIA
* gay rights in lithuania *
Ambiguo “Gay propaganda” is -facto banned sce 2009 but the law has not been enforced for a long as punishmentLGBTQ+ ntent is rtricted for mors Lhuania sce 2009.
Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned Only 26 untri allow transgenr ary service, Lhuania is not one of themBlood donatns by MSMs Lhuania?
(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.
WILL THE MAJOR VICTORY MATė V. LHUANIA CONVCE SEIMAS TO REPEAL THE “ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA” PROVISN?
Lhuania is a former Soviet bloc untri where morn "Gay Life Lhuania" is nflict wh old relig and secular tradns. * gay rights in lithuania *
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. LGL subsequently submted s shadow report on the LGBT* human rights suatn the untry to the UN and met wh 25 different ernment reprentativ at the UN office Geneva, urgg them to draw the Lhuanian ernment’s attentn to human rights vlatns agast LGBT* persons the monly vlated rights Lhuania clu:Right to Freedom of ExprsnRight to Equaly and Non-discrimatnRight to EdutnRight to Freedom of Peaceful AssemblyRight to Life, Liberty and Secury of a PersonRight to PrivacyRight to HealthAnti-gay propaganda legislatnThe Law on the Protectn of Mors agast the Detriment Effect of Public Informatn, which is clud Lhuanian legislatn, reads that “public rmatn shall be attributed to rmatn which has a trimental effect on mors […] which exprs ntempt for fay valu, enurag the ncept of entry to a marriage and creatn of a fay other than stipulated the Constutn and the Civil Co”.
)Homophobic and/or transphobic legislative iativThere were ten openly homophobic and transphobic legislative iativ the Parliament so far.