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Region | Lithuania |
Issue | Homosexual activity |
Status | Male illegal, female legal |
Start Date | Jun 15, 1940 |
End Date | Jun 1993 |
Description | Lithuania was absorbed by the USSR in 1940. Criminalization of sodomy already existed under number 154-a by imprisonment of 3 to 5 years in the Soviet Criminal Code. |
Sources | http://museumreforms.ru/node/13816 https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2018/12/17_a_12097333.shtml |
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Start Date | 1940 | Jun 15, 1940 |
End Date | Jun 1993 | Jan 1993 |
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End Date | Jan 1, 1993 | Jun 1993 |
Description | Lithuania was absorbed by the USSR in 1940. An article under which sodomy was punishable by imprisonment from 5 to 8 years existed in the Soviet Criminal Code from March 7, 1934 - number 154-a: “Sexual intercourse between a man and a man (sodomy) - imprisonment for a term of three to five years. Sodomy committed with the use of violence or taking advantage of the dependent position of the victim - imprisonment for a term of five to eight years." | Lithuania was absorbed by the USSR in 1940. Criminalization of sodomy already existed under number 154-a by imprisonment of 3 to 5 years in the Soviet Criminal Code. |
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Status | Male illegal, female legal |
Start Date | Jan 1, 1940 |
End Date | Jan 1, 1993 |
Description | Lithuania was absorbed by the USSR in 1940. An article under which sodomy was punishable by imprisonment from 5 to 8 years existed in the Soviet Criminal Code from March 7, 1934 - number 154-a: “Sexual intercourse between a man and a man (sodomy) - imprisonment for a term of three to five years. Sodomy committed with the use of violence or taking advantage of the dependent position of the victim - imprisonment for a term of five to eight years." |
Sources | http://museumreforms.ru/node/13816 https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2018/12/17_a_12097333.shtml |