Viljandi Blocks Baltic Pride Rainbow Display Approved in Tallinn, Tartu

Viljandi blocks Baltic Pride rainbow display approved in Tallinn, Tartu

Viljandi officials blocked the planned display of a traveling Baltic Pride rainbow banner, citing concerns over community expectations and Children's Day on June 1.

Editorial: Viljandi’s rainbow ban is not child protection – it is civic exclusion

Viljandi city government’s refusal to allow the Estonian LGBT Association to unfurl a rainbow-coloured fabric in Vabaduse Square on 1 June is not an act of child protection. It is an act of civic exclusion. Viljandi, a town of about 17,000 people in southern Estonia, is not some cultural backwater. It is one of Estonia’s historic cultural centres, home to the Viljandi Folk Music Festival, one of the country’s best-known cultural events, and the …