European Court Rules Against Lithuania LGBTQ+ Propaganda Law

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled Lithuania’s anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda law violates the European Convention on Human Rights.

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In 2019, author Neringa Dangvydė Macatė filed a lawsuit against the law after Lithuanian authorities censured her children’s book that featured two same-sex couples.

The law bans the distribution of information to minors that “expresses contempt for family values, encourages the concept of entry into a marriage and creation of a family other than stipulated in the Constitution of the republic of Lithuania and the Civil Code of the republic of Lithuania.”

In April 2022, the court heard Macatė’s case.

Openly gay US Ambassador to Lithuania Bob Gilchrist is among those who have publicly criticized the law. Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, an openly gay Lithuanian MP who is running for mayor of Vlinius, the country’s capital, told the Washington Blade the ruling will bolster efforts to repeal the propaganda law.

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