Baltic Visitor

All About Latvia has posted an article on the upcoming gay pride march in Riga. The post includes mention of the Family Holidays event which was held today, intended explicitly to set up ‘family values’ in opposition to the gay pride event, and gives some useful background information on the subject of Latvian intolerance towards homosexuality.

Perhaps most pertinent to foreign tourists is the report on an interview with the creator of the nopride.lv website.

Maslakovs opposes the gay pride parade because from his experience with similar events in other countries, gay pride parades have little to do with homosexuality itself, but a lot to do with exhibitionism that men and women use to show their naked bodies in public. For him, gay pride parade is an exported idea for quite [sic], mostly reserved Latvians.

It maybe okay there, but it’s not okay here.

Latvians cannot allow someone from France, UK, or Sweden dictate how we are to live our lives, he said. Most of the participants are speaking English, they’re not Latvians, he says.

“Latvian gays are not obsessed with these problems,” he says.

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