This year’s Baltic Pride parade was held in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, on 6 June 2026, ERR reports. The parade progressed through Tallinn’s Old Town and ended with an open-air concert at the Telliskivi Creative City. This year’s theme was “silence will not defeat hate,” emphasising the need to speak up and take action against hate. The event was organised by the Estonian LGBT Association and partners. Earlier, local events celebrating the Pride Month were held in Tartu and Viljandi. The event in Viljandi went ahead despite a decision of local authorities to ban the public gathering on city property, ERR reported. The Estonian Human Rights Centre has sued the municipality over the ban, ERR reports. The Baltic Pride event rotates annually between the Baltic capitals of Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius.
The Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, hosted a traditional Pride Month march on 6 June 2026 as well, LRT reported. Participants expressed hope that all people would be accepted in Lithuania, stressing that all families were important. The event organisers expected around 20,000 people to take part in the march. Vilnius mayor Valdas Benkunskas and MP Matas Maldeikis of the opposition conservative Homeland Union, MP Laurynas Sedvydis, chairman of the human rights committee of the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, and politicians from the opposition Lithuanian Liberal Movement, Freedom Party, and Lithuanian Green Party took part in the march. Two small groups of counter-protesters decried “LGBT ideology,” and police detained a man who threw a smoke grenade at the marchers.