workg to advance fairns, safety and opportuny for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muni and our alli throughout Geia.
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Hundreds of opponents of gay rights have swarmed the se of an LGBT ftival the pal of the untry of Geia, vandalizg the stage, settg fir and lootg the event’s bar. * georgia lgbt pride *
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. Geia has passed laws agast discrimatn and hate crim, but LGBTQ+ rights groups say there is a lack of aquate protectn by law enforcement officials and homophobia remas wispread the socially nservative South Cs natn. Geia Equaly’s missn is to advance fairns, safety and opportuny for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muni and our alli throughout the state.
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Geia crimalised homosexualy 2000, and anti-discrimatn laws were adopted 2006 and 2014. 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.
Geia hop to jo the European Unn but s lg Geian Dream party has faced creased cricism om rights groups and the EU over s perceived drift towards police and ernment did not immediately rpond to Rters' requt for ment on Ms Kvaratskhelia's more:Pri London 2023: Thoands march om Hy Park as part of pal's LGBT paraEuropean Unn's first openly gay head of state sworn as Latvia's printGeia's Print Salome Zourabichvili, a equent cric of the ernment, also nmned the police, sayg they had failed their duty to uphold people's right to assemble was jured durg the cint. While support for jog the EU is high Geia—over 80 percent, acrdg to a poll nducted last year—large pockets of the populatn are socially nservative and very relig, which has proved to be fertile ground for homophobia.
In 2013, a year after Put returned to the princy amid mass street protts that he blamed on the Wt, Rsia passed a law banng so-lled gay propaganda, a blunt attempt to outlaw any public discsn of homosexualy a ntral or posive light. It was acpanied by a dramatic uptick reports Rsian state TV that sought to portray LGBT people as immoral agents of the Wt, which was often referred to as “Gayropa.