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 …
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