Latvian “Science Fund” head, Green Party official asks to ban Riga Pride event

Latvia will host the Baltic Pride march for the region’s LGBT community and their supporters in Riga on June 9, 2018, a date that was announced last May. Shortly before the turn of the year, Valentīns Jeremejevs, president of the Latvian Science Fund, which was founded by the Latvian Academy of Sciences, announced he was calling for a referendum to ban the march by what he called “sick persons”.

Mr. Jeremejevs, who is also chairman of the Green Party unit in Riga (part of Latvia’s governing…