PHOTOS: Visiting The Surprising City Picked for Euro Pride

Policemen watch participants during the first Gay Pride in Riga, Latvia, while antigay demonstrators threaten them in 2005

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Riga’s parade marchers, accompanied by police and protesters in 2009

Police at parade in 2005

Anti-LGBT protesters in 2005 

Excommunicated Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church priest Māris Sants in 2005

Priests of the U.S. Metropolitan Community Church in the 2007 Pride march 

Pride marchers in 2008

Anti-LGBT protesters in 2008

Mozaika members and supporters at Pride in 2009

Protesters against Pride 2009

Protesters against Pride 2009

Baltic Pride in Riga in 2012

Baltic Pride in Riga in 2012