LGBTQ Rights · August 9, 2025
Air Force Yanks Trans Vets’ Retirements
Fifteen years in uniform, a lifetime of pride — and the Air Force just pulled the rug. 💔✈️
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Law & Courts · Jan 26
Lithuania's Anti-LGBTQ Propaganda Law Ruled Violative of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Lithuania's anti-LGBTQ propaganda law violates the European Convention on Human Rights. The law, which bans the distribution of information to minors that "expresses contempt for family values," has been met with criticism from LGBTQ advocates and allies, including the openly gay U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania.
Politics · Aug 24
Far from home, LGBTQ+ Russians feel sad but safer
BERLIN/VILNIUS, Aug 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Before Russia invaded Ukraine, journalist Karen Shainyan was one of the best-known openly gay figures in Russian journalism, covering LGBTQ+ life in a country where…
Politics · Oct 14
Lithuania's 'gay propaganda' law looms over fight for same-sex unions
VILNIUS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the target of constant homophobic abuse as a teenager, Rimas Prokopovicius rarely heard anything positive about gay people when he was growing up in a provincial city in norther…