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Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• LATVIA IS WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EU, X SHOWS
• GAY UPLE TRAVELG TO RIGA, LATVIA - LATVIA FOM
• GAY DATG RIGA
• GAY LATVIA TRAVEL GUI
• THE BEST RIGA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS RIGA
• GAY LATVIA
• GAY LIFE LATVIA 2017
• GAY BARS/NIGHTCLUBS - RIGA FOM
• RIGA GAY MAP
• RIGA GAY CISE CLUBS
• RIGA GAY CISE CLUBS
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS RIGA
• ATBALSS GAY SNARIGAMENUHOTELSBARS & CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASEUROPRI 2015 VIOCY GUIGAY MAPATBALSS GAY SNA

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

As we kicked off our #mygaypri mpaign this summer to promote Gay Pri ci worldwi, Riga beme an unual top choice. ” This was my first imprsn of the gay-iendls of Riga and wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t great.

Later the same day I was off to meet my tour gui along wh other #mygaypri team members, fellow travel blogger Adam om Travels of Adam and Jamie om Gay Star News, our media partner for the mpaign. That night was time to check out the gay scene startg wh Goln, one of Riga’s two gay bars. Riga’s other gay bar is XXL.

LATVIA IS WORST PLACE TO BE GAY EU, X SHOWS

The same owners even operate a small gay hotel if that’s your kd of thg. I don’t re if you are a gay untry sger or not. After our quick exposure to this charmg and vg Latvian cy, I n easily see as a great, unforeen statn for gay travelers.

It’s not nearly as gay-iendly as s Wtern European neighbors, but ’s makg stris that directn and EuroPri helped to take another step. The gays n seek out their own the gay bars and also feel fortable, while beg somewhat ut, enjoyg all the cy has to offer to all s visors, gays and straights alike. I know that the school I will be gog to has a fairly large LGBTQ+ populatn, but at the same time I know that that part of the world se a lot of homophobia.

Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.

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”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world.

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!

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”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.

Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

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Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Latvia, Lhuania and Poland have been ranked the three worst plac EU to be an LGBTI cizen, acrdg an x by the gay rights anisatn ILGA. The Rabow Europe 2016 x, published on Tuday (10 May), examed the suatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex people across Europe based on how laws and polici affect the cizens and ranked 49 European natns acrdgly.

In Lhuania, many LGBTI-iendly events took place 2015, and Vilni’ mayor is favour of hostg the pal’s first gay pri 2016. The executive director at ILGA-Europe also lashed out at the European Commissn and Vice-Print Frans Timmermans, who is also charge of EU Fundamental Rights, for not dog enough to bat homophobic and transphobic vlence. Gay uple travelg to Riga, Latvia.

I am wrg bee I have a qutn about the level of acceptance we should expect as a gay uple Riga, and the small villag when we venture outsi of the cy. We have heard que a range of what we might expect as a married gay uple Eastern Europe and obvly, we want to have a good time while travelg but we also want to be safe.

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We are not a flamboyant uple, but like most married upl on holiday, we are often affectnate wh one other and wanted to ask what Latvians (or those who have traveled to Latvia) thk we should know about the level of acceptance and tolerance there is toward gay people there. Re: Gay uple travelg to Riga, Latvia.

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There is almost no vlence towards same sex upl (I say almost bee one public figure Latvia was attacked several years ago), but Latvia is a very homophobic untry. Hate speech towards homosexualy is wispread on ter, there is a strong movement to ban this year's pri, pris general are unr heavy police protectn to avoid homophob attackg those who march on pri.

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Fairytale stl offer the perfect entree to a thrivg - and growg - gay scene. Latvia Gay Scene.

While the gayborhood revolv entirely around one ma club - Goln - the gay muny is both welg and close-kn. The Gay Scene Latvia. View the Gay Scene Latvia.

Jet aga the doorman (y the bald guy is still there) at Club Jt said was a private gay club:) I've been Riga several tim. Otherwise we uld not get bee of the private gay club gog on.

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If was a private gay club, why should we book a table for €150? Gay Pri had much opposn the years before 2007 when Riga Pri happened peacefully and succsfully as 400+ LGBT cizens and supporters–cludg straight Latvians and foreign activists–parad a rdoned off park for a show of lor, mic and speech.

From 2006, the event was officially known as Riga Pri and Friendship Days, expandg the program beyond a para to clu a church service as well as semars on LGBT rights but was dispted by anti-gay right-wg protters om a radil group lled ‘No Pri’, among others.

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It rotat annually among each Baltic state pal operatn wh the Lhuanian Gay League, the Estonian LGBT Associatn and their lol Pri events. Passport Magaze thor Stuart Haggis ntued: I traveled to Riga wh a party of gay journalists om England, Ireland, and Germany as guts of Mozaika.

Oour nam and erary had been leaked to No Pri, so we arrived to see all the tails a salac ont page article Latvia’s right-wg newspaper Rdiena, whose lnaire publisher Igors Masiakovs is cintally the chair of the an-gay ‘No Pri’ group.

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Some people thk of Latvia as a gay statn. Based Riga, is the regn’s first gay travel agency.

RIGA GAY CISE CLUBS

The pany’s charmg young director, Pli, readily adms that Latvia isn’t known as the most open or gay-iendly statn, pecially when pared to ci like Paris or New York, but his aim is to take gay visors to the plac that are welg. Although they n arrange everythg om treatments at luxur spa rorts, to airport transfers a limoe acpanied by champagne and your very own male stripper, surprisgly ’s the adrenale-fueled activi that are most popular among gay visors. For the gay muny, Pri has s own special meang.

By Stuart Haggas, eded by GlobalGayz.

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Gay Latvia News & Reports 2000 to prent. My troductn to gay Latvian affairs happened one afternoon the office of LGBT anizatn Mozaika (Mosaic) the only LGBT anizatn Latvia workg for the protectn of LGBT rights and human rights Latvia.

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In 2005 followg public homophobic exprsns toward Riga Pri that year, some members of the LGBT muny, their iends and fay members uned to ph back and found Mozaīka orr to promote tolerance towards sexual mori. Siar to the other two Baltic untri, Lhuania and Estonia, Gay Pri the years before 2007 enuntered strong homophobic opposn that prevented or dispted visible and vol celebratns of Pri.

Latvia gay life’s was threatened by the force of the Soviet regime that crimalized same-genr life and love. Sce s release om the Soviet sphere 1991 Latvia has tried to ee self of reprsive ernance but homophobia has risted the revisns.