How the Owner of Tbilisi’s Only Gay Bar Gets Drsed

Contents:

• HOW THE OWNER OF TBILISI’S ONLY GAY BAR GETS DRSED
• TBILISI GAY TRAVEL
• ON THE EDGE OF TRADN: HOLDG DOWN THE ONLY GAY BAR GEIA
• THE BEST TBILISI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TBILISI
• BOUNCERS AT GAY CLUBS GEIA SCREEN PATRONS FOR BIGOTRY

HOW THE OWNER OF TBILISI’S ONLY GAY BAR GETS DRSED

There is only one gay bar Tbilisi, Geia: a ty two-room club lled Succs, tucked down a si street off Rtaveli Avenue, the cy’s ma drag, and sandwiched between two nvenience stor.

TBILISI GAY TRAVEL

While Succs is a happy haven for Tbilisi’s gay muny and Gvatua is certaly good spirs, she tells me that sce Succs opened about a year and half ago, has been the target of robberi, vandalism, and vlence—most recently, last September, when a man asslted a secury guard and shouted homophobic slurs. Geia has long been known for s tolerance for the gay muny.

Its history has been riddled wh vlence, cludg mass protts durg gay pri paras.

ON THE EDGE OF TRADN: HOLDG DOWN THE ONLY GAY BAR GEIA

Photographed by Julien BoutIn tth, the spot had been a gay bar for the 17 years prr, but Gvatua says had grown dated.

THE BEST TBILISI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TBILISI

“It was dark, the mic was terrible, and there were only two gays the rner, ” she says. “I love the gay muny, I thk homophobia is beyond stupid, and Geia needs to be liberated.

” Inspired by the safe gay spac Berl, Gvatua renovated the bar wh the help of a lol bsman, who owns the boutique hotels Stamba and Rooms.

BOUNCERS AT GAY CLUBS GEIA SCREEN PATRONS FOR BIGOTRY

Gvatua creds the rultg makeover wh helpg Tbilisi’s gay muny to open self October, for stance, Tbilisi’s first drag queen, Gerilyn, got drsed the back of Succs.

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