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According to TV3.lt journalists working there, provocations were received even before the march started.
Several men poured beer on people carrying a rainbow flag.
Kaunas County Police spokeswoman Odeta Vaitkevičienė told news portal tv3.lt that this incident was not recorded near the officers, no one requested it, and no one was detained.
Later, the Kaunas County Police Chief Commissioner announced that the march had started on the planned route from Sobor.
Before the march, there were more aggressive people who wanted to enter, but were not admitted to the venue. 1 person arrested for provocation and incitement. There have also been reports of people with dogs near the Cathedral.
The decision was made: the tickets to Laivės al.
PHOTO GALLERY. Police are arresting people
Expect at least a thousand participants
The LGBTQ + Kaunas Pride community march will take place in Kaunas on Saturday. Organizers expect about 1,000 people to take part in the march for gay and transgender rights.
Event participants are scheduled to start choosing outside Kaunas Cathedral at 12 noon, and Laisvės Alley will move at 1 p.m. Then, it is planned to stop at the Kaunas City Municipality Headquarters later, after reaching the end of Laisvės Alley, turn around and head back down the alley back to Sobor. After the march, the languages of the participants are planned.
PHOTO GALLERY. Kaunas prepares for the LGBTQ + march
Submitted a list of requirements
On Thursday, LGBTQ + representatives presented the list of 14 items to Seimas Spokesperson Viktorija Čmilyte-Nielsen, including the requirement to guarantee the right to marriage, partner and adoption, regardless of the sex of the partner, to guarantee social guarantees and services. for all, without discrimination based on marital status, to reform the Law for the Protection of Minors from the Negative Impact of Public Information, “on the basis of which information about the LGBTQ + community is censored.”
It also calls for LGBTQ + people to be protected from discrimination at work and in other areas of society.
A call is made for the simplification of the issuance of identity documents through gender reassignment so that there is no need to go to court, and schools, colleges and universities are taught about the LGBTQ + community and the different gender orientations, identities and expressions.
The list also states that it is necessary to guarantee qualified and accessible psychological assistance to all Lithuanians so that health care services are provided without discrimination on the grounds of gender identity, sexual orientation and gender expression.
The law requires a ban on conversion therapy, a practice designed to change sexual orientation. Among the demands is the fight against hate crimes.
Believers protest LGBT marches
Before the LGBTQ + community march began in Kaunas, church representatives staged a retaliation. They claimed that they had gathered for public prayer, showing that Lithuania, as a Catholic country, had “unacceptable lax behavior”.
The priest Edmundas Naujokaitis, who attended the protest, told reporters that the LGBT march was an “insult to God.”
“This is a protest against the Kaunas Pride march. On the one hand, it is a protest, and on the other, as we wrote on Facebook, it is a prayer of reparation, of justification.
Because it is an insult to God, it is not a political but a religious form. We ask God’s forgiveness for this event, which according to Catholic principles is a sin. Demonstrating this position is what we call the LGBT ideal [tai nuodėmė]”Said the priest E. Naujokaitis.
Jurgis Jonaitis, one of the organizers of the pilgrim procession, says that the faithful organized the anti-protest as a reward to God “against attempts to establish sins against nature.”
According to him, the LGBTQ + march seeks to establish morally obscene behavior on various levels, changing the concept of marriage, parenting traditions, etc. According to J. Jonaitis, these issues cause great controversy in society.
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