The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that Lithuanian law-enforcement authorities discriminated against a gay couple when they refused to open an investigation into hateful comments against them on social media.
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Lithuania's conservative MP Rokas Žilinskas passed away in the Vilnius University's Santaros Clinic after a complicated disease, Gabrielius Landsbergis, the head of the conservative Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats, confirmed to BNS.
Gay men fleeing persecution in Chechnya have found refuge in Lithuania: Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius confirmed to BNS on Wednesday that two persons who suffered repression in the southern Russian republic have come to Lithuania.
The Lithuanian LGBT rights group LGL has produced a series of videos in order to raise awareness about and visibility of transgender people in the country. Part of the #TRANS_LT campaign, the videos have been released this week.
In her fairy tale book Amber Heart, Neringa Dangvydė addresses "the twilight zone": same-sex marriage, shifting identities, social exclusion taking place in front of our eyes (or carried out by us ourselves). Those things are still awkward to speak of; they are difficult to find the right words for,...
