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Mamuka Mdinaradze, Irakli Kobakhidze, Irakli Gharibashvili in October 2021. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

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Georgian Dream ramps up homophobic rhetoric as Pride Week approaches

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•7 min read

In recent months, senior figures in the ruling Georgian Dream party have increased and intensified their homophobic rhetoric, accusing a fast food restaurant of distributing ‘LGBT propaganda’, and suggesting that students need to enter heterosexual relationships and ‘reproduce’. Georgia’s Prime Minister, ruling party chair, and parliamentary faction chair have all made pointed homophobic statements in recent months, warning against queer ‘propaganda’ and accusing young people of having ‘messed

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Church in spat with McDonald’s over space in downtown Kutaisi

by OC Media

•2 min read

It’s been over a week since protests began in Georgia’s third largest city, Kutaisi, over the planned construction of a second McDonald’s restaurant in the city. On 13 January, the Kutaisi Post reported that clergy were among protesters, claiming that a church was planned for the same location that the new McDonald’s restaurant will open. Locals are reportedly concerned that the new restaurant will distort the authenticity of the city and are upset that the old clock on the square will need