homo@lv

In the summer of 2005, two guys came up with an idea to organise an unprecedented event - a festive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people’s parade in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Following the example of similar LGBT parades in Western cities, they decided to call it "Pride". They did not know that their good intention would spiral into a chain of inconceivable events lasting several years. The astonishing unearthing of Pride in Riga as shown in Kaspars Goba’s work, starting from its inception in 2005 through to the announcement of Pride not being held in Riga in 2010, enables the viewer to consider these events from a different perspective. It makes one contemplate the role politicians play in manipulating people’s ideals, and ask: what is the price of democracy in Latvia?