When TYA and LGL handed the flag to @outhousedublin.bsky.social and LGBT Ireland, the room filled with applause.

Vilnius gave us courage, care, and connection. Now the flag carries it forward to the next chapter - in Dublin! 🍀

#IEVilnius2025 🔜 #IEDublin2026

Yesterday, we closed the #IEVilnius2025 with conversations on connection, resilience, and the future of our movement. The closing plenary & gala celebrated everything we built together this week. The strategies, friendships, and shared courage will carry us forward long after we leave Vilnius.

Yesterday at the #IEVilnius2025, we explored what it truly takes to build power through challenges. From panels on resistance and mobilisation to sessions on data, storytelling, and solidarity, the day was about learning from experience and transforming struggle into strategy.

Yesterday at the #IEVilnius2025, we faced forward together! The day opened with conversations about finding clarity in uncertain times. Activists explored what it means to defend democracy, sustain activism through care, and strengthen our movement in the face of global change.

The second conference panel of #IEVilnius2025 has begun, with our panellists exploring the question: how do we use this period in time to become stronger, bigger, more politically and socially powerful and impactful as a movement? Rich conversation is promised!

Attending the ILGA-Europe conference today provided an amazing opportunity to catch up with civil society working with and for #LGBTI people and learn about their concerns. I will play my part in standing up for #HumanRights. #IEVilnius2025

Yesterday, the #IEVilnius2025 began with our connecting spaces, creating moments of reflection, solidarity and care. In the evening, we came together for the opening reception, celebrating reconnection and collective strength as activists, organisers and allies to begin this year’s journey together.

I reiterated my 10-Point renewed pledge to stand with LGBTI people, challenge repressive laws, and advocate for civil society and funding. Hope is a duty. We must never stop struggling for a world where everyone is free and equal in dignity and rights. #IEVilnius2025
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The situation is nothing short of dire. In my #IEVilnius2025 speech today, I addressed the ‘perfect storm’ facing #LGBTI people, including rising populism and a weakening political centre ground. Now is the time for fierce determination.
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The ILGA-Europe Annual Conference 2025 is officially underway. #IEVilnius2025
ILGA-Europe's Executive Director, Chaber, shared a few inspiring words at today's opening panel titled “Facing forward: Political clarity in uncertain times”. Watch the full speech here: https://bit.ly/4oC7VlZ

Commissioner for Human Rights of @coe.int Dr. Michael O’Flaherty at the opening of the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference #IEVilnius2025. “I will never lose hope, it is a duty, to envision of a world where everyone is free in dignity.”

Commissioner for Human Rights of @coe.int Dr. Michael O’Flaherty at the opening of the ILGA-Europe Annual Conference #IEVilnius2025. The weakening of the political middle ground is frightening. When the center cannot hold, things fall apart, and he LGBTI community face a perfect storm.