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Saturday, May 31
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Source: Deutsche Welle, Associated Press via IHT , UK Gay News Gay Pride demonstrators were allowed to march on a street in Riga this year. Photos: UK Gay News Protesters with Russian-language signs and bizarre condom costumes separated from Pride demonstrators by a cordon of police Photo: UK Gay News Gay rights activists and their opponents have squared off Saturday during a parade in downtown Riga, Latvia in what has become an unfortunate springtime tradition in the Baltic country. For the first time, however, the demonstration in Riga was mostly peaceful this year, and included an unprecedented...
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Friday, April 04
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Source: Alpha.lt A European ministers' forum has said public rallies by Lithuanian sexual minorities groups cannot be quashed simply because some people are prejudiced against their choice of lifestyle, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reported Thursday. The Strasbourg-based Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe made the statement after hearing a complaint against Vilnius mayor Juozas Imbrasas by a lawmaker from Luxembourg, according to the newspaper. Jean Huss, a member of the CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, accused Imbrasas of stifling the freedom of expression of sexual minorities groups...
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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: UK Gay News RIGA, January 15, 2008 – An assistant to one of the members of the Latvian Saeima (Parliament) was found guilty today in a criminal case of “hooliganism” during the Riga Gay Pride in 2006 when participants had excrement thrown at them. Janis Dzelme, a 32-years old married man with two young children, was sentenced to 100 hours of “compulsory labour” by the Vidzeme District Court of the city of Riga for “gross public disorderliness as manifested in an obvious lack of respect toward the public by ignoring universally accepted norms of behaviour”. He works in the Saeima for Dainis...
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Thursday, November 15
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Source: UK Gay News RIGA, Latvia -- The Senate of the Supreme Court of Latvia has today upheld the April ruling of a lower court that the ban on Riga Gay Pride in 2006 by the city authorities was unlawful. On April 12 this year, the Regional Administrative Court ruled the ban unlawful, but Riga City Council appealed the decision. A spokesperson for Mozaika, the country’s LGBT group, said that it was fortunate that the City Council appealed the Administrative Court decision and went to the Supreme Court. Today’s decision is final and sets precedent for Latvia’s courts system and future rulings....
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Thursday, November 15
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Source: UK Gay News RIGA -- Watchmen on the Walls is not a hate group, Scott Lively declared during the group’s conference which opened yesterday in the Latvian capital. The anti-gay American author of the notorious The Pink Swastika was introduced to delegates as “the prominent human rights activist and public figure”. Mr. Lively claimed to be speaking on behalf of the vast majority of people on earth. “We do not want to inflict evil on those who choose for themselves an immoral way of life – we do not feel hatred towards [gays],” he said. “We want to save them – we are opposed to homosexual advocacy...
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Thursday, November 01
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Source: Compiled by seaQwa news from Amnesty International press release The human rights group Amnesty International today issued a public statement urging the Baltic republic of Lithuania to "respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people." The statement says, Amnesty International is concerned that Lithuania is failing to respect the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression.... Amnesty International urges the Lithuanian authorities to respect the right to peaceful...
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Thursday, November 01
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Source: compiled by seaQwa News (includes material from Guardian Unlimited , Associated Press , AFP , and Times (London) ) An off-the-cuff remark by British opposition leader David Cameron has sparked a wave of outrage, reached the front pages of the Lithuanian press, and led to a complaint from the eastern European country's ambassador. Cameron, usually a slick media performer, told an arts funding lunch last week he hoped grants were not being handed to what some sources quoted as "one-legged Lithuanian dance troupes." Other sources, including AFP , transcribed the remark as a reference...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: PinkNews 11th annual ILGA-Europe conference came to a close Sunday. It was held in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius and attended by almost 200 delegates from all over Europe. The conference provided an opportunity to discuss the organisational priorities, strategies and tactics on advancing equality and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Europe. Fears that anti-gay activists had attempted to sabotage the conference were unfounded - Lithuanian and international media had reported on smoke bombs set off in a gay nightclub adjacent to the conference venue. "It...
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Saturday, October 27
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Source: BBC News An annual gay rights conference in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, was attacked with smoke bombs, after a rally in the city was banned. Over 200 gays, lesbians and transsexuals attended the meeting. Delegates inside a local bar found it difficult to breathe after the smoke bombs were thrown, but had to stay inside because of safety concerns. The event was to be part of a week of events organised by ILGA Europe, a gay rights group based in Brussels. A press officer for Mayor Juozas Imbrasas told the BBC the public gathering had been banned because of what she said were "safety...
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Saturday, October 27
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Source: UK Gay News VILNIUS, October 27, 2007 – Last weekend, the Latvia-based Russia-speaking New Generation Church staged a conference near Seattle under the guise of its off-shoot Watchmen on the Walls. This weekend, the New Generation Church’s Lithuanian branch took to the streets to protest the International Lesbian and Gay Association Europe annual conference in Vilnius. Yesterday, the small band of the church’s supporters gathered outside the ILGA-Europe conference venue to protest what they called “propaganda of homosexuality”. “While the participants were brainstorming and conducting discussions...
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