Three days before the march. This morning I came to Mozaika’s office and found one of the volunteers asleep on our cosy large windowsill. It’s a lot of work for a handful of people. By midday tomorrow, we are supposed to turn this office into the Friendship Days Information Centre. At the moment, we […]
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It’s been about a week since we finally found out the exact time and place of the march. It has caused loads of debate in society – I must admit there hasn’t been a day when this wasn’t discussed one way or another in the media. Every morning I read in one of the newspapers […]
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Not that long ago I participated at the conference “Organizing prides in a hostile environment”, which took place back in 2006 and really related to our situation in Riga. One of the main concerns in hostile environments is, of course, security. One can’t underestimate how important it is. People who are coming to our event […]
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Hallelujah! Common sense has won and we have reached a sensible agreement on how to march without having to kick children out of the park. The City Council itself suggested an alternative route that was acceptable for us and seemed not to bother the police too much. While a heated debate was forming between Mozaika […]
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This park ain’t big enough for the both of us…
Published by May 12th, 2008 in Riga Pride 2008. 0 CommentsFinally we have had a meeting with Riga City Council – when we arrived it turned out it wasn’t as low profile as we thought it was going to be for the first meeting this year. There was the managing director of the City Council, all the city council lawyers and representatives from various structures […]
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Talking about illusions… We have gay-themed TV series like Will & Grace on TV. We even have Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and it’s widely popular and everyone watches it. But it’s just something out there, not here.
It’s okay to see gay people on TV and have a laugh at how funny those guys […]
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Dear readers!
We all live in an illusion. Or at least I do. My personal illusions are way out of hand, yet in terms of the work Mozaika is doing I thought I saw things pretty clearly. Surely we expected some troubles when organizing (or trying to organize) a pride parade in this country, especially doing […]
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Hi, my name is Kristine. I am the chair of Mozaika’s board and, over the next few months, I will share my thoughts about organizing Riga Pride with you on this blog. I hope you like it!
Time is flying. We are less than 2 months away from the Friendship Days and the Pride march in […]
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