same-sex marriage

Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church leaders on Tuesday called on the new government coalition not to equate same-sex unions with families.

Couples, including gays and lesbians, will be "married" by a humanoid robot in a mock ceremony planned to be staged outside the Lithuanian government's building in Vilnius on St. Valentine's Day.

A married gay couple continues to fight Lithuanian migration authorities that refuse to grant one of the male spouses residency permit.

The Lithuanian parliament will debate on Thursday an amendment to the Constitution that would tie the legal definition of a family to marriage and parenthood.

Lithuania's Migration Department has refused to issue a temporary residence permit to a Belarusian man who married his Lithuanian male partner in the Netherlands.

Every fourth Lithuanian thinks that same-sex marriage should be legalized throughout the European Union, according to a Eurobarometer survey. This is well below the EU average, BNS reports.

The first same-sex marriage was concluded in Tallinn between a British national and his Estonian partner. The two men were married on 14 August by British Consul Kathryn Lindsay, news.err.ee reports.

Final adjustments to a bill on registered partnership, drafted by the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice, are being made with the Catholic Church, and the document would shortly be submitted to the government for deliberation, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says.

Lithuania's Ministry of Justice has drafted a bill that, if passed, would introduce the institution of partnership into the country's Civil Code. However, the bill spells out that the possibility to form partnerships would only apply to opposite-sex couples. According to Justice Minister Juozas Bern...

Seventy-nine percent of people in Lithuania still say they oppose legislation instituting same-sex partnership. But the number of those in support has doubled over the last year to 15 percent, a survey has revealed on Thursday.