Parade sours Latvia's image

Aug 03, 2005
By Aaron Eglitis

RIGA - The message was made loud and clear. "We have decided to avoid your country until there is a better policy for minorities like gays," the German tour operator wrote in an e-mail last week to his Riga-based partner. The group of 30, he said, would find another place 's i.e., one more tolerant 's to spend their holiday. A week after a massive counter-demonstration against Latvia's first gay parade, one that ended in several arrests, and the damage to the state's image abroad is still being ...

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