What's life like for LGBTQ people in Lithuania?
Let’s take a look at some of the key equality indicators.
What’s life like for LGBTQ people in Lithuania? Let’s take a look at some of the key equality indicators.
Is homosexuality legal in Lithuania?
Yes. Same-sex sexual activity was decriminalised in 1993.
Are there anti-discrimination protections in place for LGBTQ people in Lithuania?
Yes. Anti-discrimination protections were enacted in 2010.
Is there Marriage Equality in Lithuania?
No. There is no legal recognition of same-sex relationships.
What’s life like for LGBTQ people in Lithuania?
Lithuania is a socially conservative country.
Homophobia is systemic.
There is a small LGBTQ community in Vilnius.
In the recent ILGA report on LGBTQ Equality, Lithuania was ranked 36th out of all the countries in Europe. The analysis scored Lithuania highly on the criteria of Civil Society Space, but weakly on all other measures.
