The Board of Organizers of Baltic Pride 2011, the LGBT culture and entertainment week in Tallinn has confirmed the dates. You are all welcomed to Baltic Pride 2011 in Tallinn from 6th till 12th of June, 2011 including The Great Closing Ceremony on Saturday, June 11th.
Our new website will be also up and running soon!
Baltic Pride 2011 will be held in Tallinn, Estonia. The exact dates of the pride week 2011 will be announced soon.
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The first Baltic Pride march in Lithuania that took place in Vilnius on 8 May received extensive media coverage. Present at the event were most of the major Lithuanian media outlets as well as representatives of foreign media.
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“Today we’re making history,” were the words uttered over and over again in a bus taking people from a hotel in downtown Vilnius to the area set to be the site of the first LGBT pride march in Lithuania. Lofty words – partly a response to the excitement of it finally taking place despite the many obstacles that organizers had to overcome, partly a way to reassure one another and oneself in face of the fierce opposition the event was met with.
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The court has ruled in favour of the Baltic Pride march “For Equality”.
Having suspended the permit for the event on Wednesday, upon the request by the interim Attorney General who quoted security reasons, the court in Vilnius now pronounced its ruling, allowing the march to take place 8 May, as scheduled.
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The Nordic Council President, Helgi Hjörvar, has reacted strongly to a court decision in Vilnius on Wednesday to put a stop to Baltic Pride 2010, which was scheduled to take place in Vilnius on 8 May.
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With less than one week remaining before the Baltic Pride march “For Equality,” scheduled for 8 May, things started heating up.
On Monday, 3 May, the interim Attorney General of Lithuania Raimondas Petrauskas files a request to Vilnius District Administrative Court, asking to revoke the permit of the Mayor of Vilnius for the march. He quotes security concerns, allegedly based on secret information, claiming that the police will not be able to assure the safety of the participants and onlookers.
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Wednesday morning Vilnius District Administrative Court announced it will concider the request by interim Attorney General Raimondas Petrauskas and member of Kaunas city council Stanislovas Buskevicius to revoke the permit of Vilnius municipality to hold LGBT march “For Equality”.
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Attorney General aksed the court to revoke the permit of Vilnius municipal authorities for the Baltic Pride march „For Equality“ on 8 May.
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Discrimination on the basis of race, colour and sex is worldwide widely condemned but discrimination based on sexual orientation has often been neglected by the international community. The fact is that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes absolutely clear that everyone is entitled to the rights and freedoms it enumerates, without distinction of any kind. Human rights apply to all people, in all places and at all times. So they apply to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people (LGBT) too.
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