Pride and prejudices in Poland and the Baltic countries

Mozaika, together with representatives from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia had a discussion with the title "Pride and prejudices in Poland and the Baltic countries". It was a conversation about what our EU-politicians are doing for LGBT-rights. Are all members of the EU really equal?    

Lithuania has organised many projects with support from the European Social Fund in collaboration with Switzerland, Slovenia and Germany. Unfortunately they do not have enought political power to continue the process about including sexual identity to the pillars of discrimination in Poland.

Ilke, one of the representatives in the panel that come from Belgium but study at the University of Estonia, finds it interesting that the law is there in Estonia but that people do not want to come out. Due to this fact, there are no cases where discrimination due to sexual orientation have been ruled even though it occurs. You have to explain to the people in Estonia that you have the right to a family and that it is OK to be gay.

In Latvia there has been a campaign on the busses that encourages LGBT-people to apply for positions within for example the police.