Openness, a sense of communal belonging and identification of concrete goals represent the key to success in the pursuit of the empowerment of LGBT* individuals in Lithuania.

The right to freedom of expression is being protected through the challenging application of the Lithuanian 'homosexual propaganda' law through various legal avenues, developing awareness raising campaigns and supplementing public discourse with LGBT*-related positive information.

The right to freedom of peaceful assembly is being exercised through organizing large scale public awareness raising events, such as the annual Rainbow Days and the Baltic Pride festival (taking place once every three years).

This is the space where the LGL's team is implementing various projects, organizing meetings and constantly inviting the members of the local LGBT* community and their supporters to attend various events.

[2] However, despite this progress, "Lithuanian homosexuals were still living 'underground', unable to be themselves, stigmatized by the media as HIV/AIDS spreaders", as leaders of the national LGBT rights movement Vladimir Simonko and Eduardas Platovas recall.

In April 1994, the two organized the first International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) East Europe conference, which took place in the Lithuanian town of Palanga.