On the 20th of June, late afternoon after a gruelling Parliamentary session that had already lasted 26 hours straight through the night, the Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas declared that Estonia would finally join the Nordic nations by adopting marriage equality. The vote had just passed: 55 for and 34 against – I exited Parliament (The Riigikogu) to a sunny afternoon outside.
It has been a long and tiresome journey for LGTB+ rights in Estonia. Even though the nation has always been forward-looking, by having the first Pride march, the first to have a civil partnership and now marriage equality among the Baltic States, the country is still rather conservative to the extent that every now and again, the sign on the door of the LGBT association gets vandalised.
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