Coming Out
Duration
Year
Topics
Language
Lithuanian
29 min
2024
queer, love
They have been together for 52 years. To those around them, Vitalius and Albinas present themselves as father and son, although in reality they are a couple.
In Soviet times, when men met, admitting that they were homosexual was extremely dangerous: it was considered an illness and a crime. Back then, to protect himself and his beloved, Vitalius learned to lie, and after living together in a free Lithuania for more than three decades, they still do not feel safe and are still waiting for the opportunity to legalize their partnership.
As Albina grows older and gradually loses his memory, Vitalius feels tired of hiding. And for the first time, he decides to tell the story of their lives in public.
Best European Audio Documentary, PRIX EUROPA 2024, Berlin, Germany. Presented at the EBU Audio Storytelling Festival 2024, Rome, Italy.
Authors Rūta Dambravaitė ir Inga Janiulytė-Temporin
Source LRT archyvas
Broadcaster LRT radijas
Rūta Dambravaitė
Journalist for LRT radio, producer at "Radio Documentary" program. Rūta is interested in telling stories and always looks for her own way to do it. Rūta is currently studying visual anthropology at the University of Münster in Germany and is delving into how to convey human feelings, experiences, and worldviews in the documentary genre. Her documentary audio stories have been presented at the EBU Audio Storytelling Festival.
Inga Janiulytė-Temporin
Journalist for LRT radio, one of the producers of the programs "One-Time Planet" and "Radio Documentary". Inga tells various stories in her documentaries: about a woman who restored a basketball court, which gradually turned into a parking lot in a busy area, about the transformation of a hydraulic engineer who drained swamps in the Soviet era and recently restored one of them, and many others.