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Contents:

• GEIA IS A TERRIBLE PLACE TO BE GAY
• UNR THE RABOW: HOW DIRECTORS MAKE LGBT FILMS UNTRI HOSTILE TO GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

GEIA IS A TERRIBLE PLACE TO BE GAY

This summer, acunts of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr asylum seekers fleeg Rsia’s reprsive law on “homosexual propaganda” peppered reports the English-language media. While some have cricized the law for not gog far enough enforcg s own mandate, many have hailed as a brave step toward ensurg LGBT rights a regn bet by state and relig homophobia. Acrdg to a 2013 report by Intoba, an Open Society grantee, 88 percent of rponnts believed that homosexualy n “never be jtified.

TBILISI, Geia (AP) — Hundreds of opponents of gay rights on Saturday swarmed the se of an LGBT ftival the pal of the untry of Geia, vandalizg the stage, settg fir and lootg the event’s Geian Interr Mister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze said participants the Tbilisi Pri Ft were safely evacuated om the scene. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Protters broke through a police rdon to stop the Pri eventUp to 2, 000 anti-LGBT protters stormed a gay pri ftival Geia's pal Tbilisi on Saturday, forcg s right-wg protters, who clud Orthodox Christian clergy, scuffled wh police, shed the stage and burned rabow anisers and Geia's print blamed anti-LGBT hate speech that preced the event, and said the police had failed to protect ftival-goers. Homophobia remas rife Geia.

UNR THE RABOW: HOW DIRECTORS MAKE LGBT FILMS UNTRI HOSTILE TO GAY RIGHTS

Opposn of religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people? Support of homosexualy by US state? HistoryHomosexual activy Geia?

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Homosexual activy Geia is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Geia? “We feel growg solidary om Geian society and om policians, but there are still vlent homophobic groups, ” he said.

Other areas of ncern clud lack of acuntabily for law enforcement ab, illegal surveillance, unfair labor ndns, and vlence agast women and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Geia ntue to face harassment, discrimatn, and vlence. In December 2021, the European Court of Human Rights found that 2013, Geia vlated eedom of associatn and prohibns on human and gradg treatment and discrimatn when thori failed to protect peaceful monstrators om homophobic and transphobic vlence. Vlent mobs attacked a group of activists tryg to mark the ternatnal day agast homophobia on May 17, 2013, jurg dozens.

On a csa for the fence of tradnal fai, Italy's Prime Mister Grgia Meloni wants to make surrogacy rried out abroad by Italian upl a crime, after steppg up rtrictns on homosexual upl' already limed rights to parenthood. If the bill is voted on, Italian cizens who go to untri where is legal would risk recln and a ernment is also harng s stance towards homoparental fai.

In Italy, adoptn and medilly assisted procreatn techniqu are banned for homosexual upl.

— A Southern California school board has bee the latt proxy for culture wars brewg across the untry after a nservative bloc voted to formally reject state-endorsed curriculum that would have mentned gay rights figure Harvey Milk.

Proponents of the ban say Milk was a sexual predator, referrg to a disputed claim that the gay rights in had an appropriate relatnship wh a mor. Censorship✔ No censorshipChangg Genr✖ Legal, but requir surgeryNon-bary genr regnn✖ Not legally regnizedEmployment Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyHog Discrimatn✔ Sexual orientatn and genr intyMilary✖ Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people bannedConversn Therapy✖ Not banned. Public OpnRearch atttus towards LGBTQ+ issu Geia have intified a strong opposn to LGBTQ+ rights, reflectg unrlyg homophobic sentiments.

Geia SurveysOrthodox Christian Support for Church's Posn of Refg to Perform Same-Sex MarriageHistoryHomosexual activy Geia?

Servg openly ary Geia is lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned.

Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned Only 22 untri allow trans ary service, Geia is not one of them Blood donatns by MSMs Geia?

Current statSce Feb 15, 2000Equal Acrdg to article 140 and 141 of the Geian Penal Co, the age of nsent for both homosexual and heterosexual sex is 16. She has, ’s claimed, an equally strong fanbase the Tmpian “Rt Belt” as among the gay clubbers of New York Cy, to pick two of Ameri’s polarised London vis to promote a new rock-fluenced double album and a book is provg jt how broad that Parton cultural spectm is.

It’s somethg she is practised at, balancg her longstandg support for gay rights wh her tradnal relig nvictns.

In Tbilisi, ps still enter gay-iendly clubs and mand to see IDs.

Few who are faiar wh the recent history of Geia, the small, Csian untry ntled at the crossroads between Wtern Asia and Eastern Europe, will fet the warm May day exactly one year ago this week when an angry mob of unter protters, led by a gaggle of black-clad Orthodox prits, attacked a small group of LGBT activists holdg a rally to memorate the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia. Gay Pri Tbilisi (Photo cred:). To further appease crics of the anti-discrimatn bill, Geian Prime Mister Irakli Garibashvili is phg for the passage of an anti-gay marriage nstutnal amendment.

Gay Pri Tbilisi (Photo cred: Delfi). Shockg the world, Geian tele-voters gave 10 pots to Concha, leavg onlookers qutng jt how homophobic the Geian people really are. Government officials didn’t rpond to their requt, monstratg their difference towards whether the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia was celebrated Geia at all.