Date of birth

6 January 1989 

Place of birth

Kaunas, Lithuania

Education

2012

Human Rights Law, Central European University

2011

Political Science, Vilnius University

2007

Kauno Technologijos Universiteto gimnazija (upper secondary school of Kaunas University of Technology)

Work experience

2018–2020

Head of Division, Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson

2015–2018

Lawyer/ Public policy coordinator, Lithuanian Gay League

2014

Event coordinator, Brooklyn Community Pride Centre, New York, USA

2012–2013

Project Manager, Lithuanian Gay League

Political career

Member, Freedom Party

Since 2019

Member, Board, Freedom Party

2019–2020

Member, Vilnius City Municipal Council

2016–2018

Member, Liberals Movement of the Republic of Lithuania

Miscellaneous

Actively engaged in LGBT movement in Lithuania; one of the key organisers of the Baltic Pride march Už lygybę! (For Equality) in 2013 and 2016. Initiator of strategic proceedings in 2017 following which personal identification documents for transgender people are changed without any compulsory medical procedures. Highly experienced in the area of prevention of hate crimes as he represented applicants in the case of Beizaras and Levickas v. Lithuania brought before the European Court of Human Rights regarding hate speech on the Facebook social media platform. Winner of the National Equality and Diversity Award 2018 for his contribution to the protection of human rights of LGBT people. Elected to Vilnius City Municipal Council in 2019 as the first ‘professional gay’ in self-governance.

Hobbies: theatre, sport, literature, popular queer culture

Languages: English

Family

Son Natanas Tomas