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Family Purity Day

Georgian Dream to introduce queerphobic legislation

by OC Media

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The ruling Georgian Dream party has announced plans to introduce a queerphobic legislative package that would ban queer ‘propaganda’, gender affirmation treatment, and prevent queer people from adopting children. Parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Tuesday announced that the legislative package would consist of one ‘main’ and 18 other related draft laws. Papuashvili said the package would be focused on eight main points, including a legislative ban on same-sex marriage, legally ba

People gathered for Family Purity Day by the Kashveti church in Tbilisi. Photo: Dominik Cagara/OC Media

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Georgia’s Foreign Agent Law Live | Church marks Family Purity Day

by OC Media

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Backlash continues over Georgia’s foreign agent law, as the Church marks Family Purity Day. Read more: * Georgian parliament adopts foreign agent law * Government critics attacked outside their homes in Georgia * Georgian Dream to create database of ‘undesirables’ * Ivanishvili touts conspiracy theories at massive pro-government rally in Tbilisi * Georgian Dream eliminates taxes on offshore assets brought to Georgia * Explainer | Why is Georgian Dream reviving the foreign agent law?

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Video | Priests rule the streets as Georgia marks Day Against Homophobia in lockdown

by Dato Parulava

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The usual stand-off between supporters of queer rights and homophobic counter-protesters did not take place this 17 May in Tbilisi, as Georgia marked International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia under a state of emergency. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, however, ‘blessmobiles’ laden with priests still roamed the streets spraying holy water on pedestrians.

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Tbilisi marks International Day Against Homophobia with a single rainbow flag

by OC Media

•6 min read

Queer rights activists abstained from holding a demonstration in Tbilisi for this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia over safety concerns. Next month, Tbilisi is expected to host its first ever queer pride event. After warnings from far-right groups that anti-homophobic demonstrations would be met with violence, the Equality Movement, Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group, and other queer rights groups decided to limit themselves to online campaigns only o

On 17 May 2018, activists held an impromptu protest outside the Interior Ministry offices condemning the lack of safety for their events. Image: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media

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Queer rights activists hold ‘guerrilla IDAHOTB demonstrations’ in Tbilisi after far-right threats

by OC Media

•6 min read

Queer rights activists held a number of small ‘guerrilla demonstrations’ in Tbilisi on Thursday to mark International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Conservative and far-right groups held their own events, vowing to create a ‘Georgia without sodomy’, with the Church organising their own event for ‘family values’. A major queer rights rally which was originally planned for 17 May was cancelled the day before, with activists citing security concerns due to ‘an unprecede

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Georgian Orthodox Church to wed 400 couples on International Day Against Homophobia

by OC Media

•3 min read

The Georgian Orthodox Church is to host 400 marriages on 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT). The Church declared 17 May the Family Purity Day in 2014, a year after a priest-led rally attacked a small group of queer rights activists who gathered to protest discrimination. The mass wedding will be organised by the Patriarchate’s Chokhosnebi, a conservative group famous for wearing traditional Georgian male dress chokha and advocating ‘Georgian traditions

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Queer rights activists mark 17 May in Tbilisi under heavy police presence; Church takes to streets

by OC Media

•5 min read

Queer rights activists successfully marked International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on 17 May in Tbilisi, under heavy police presence. Meanwhile, priests and supporters of Georgia’s Orthodox Church took to the city’s central streets to mark ‘Family Purity Day’. The day passed largely without violence. Safety concerns Around 200 queer rights activists gathered in front of the government Chancellery building at 10:00, after police escorted them from two separate lo