Anti-Gay Rt In Tblisi Tts Balance Between Church, State : Parallels : NPR

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• ANTI-GAY RT IN TBLISI TTS BALANCE BETWEEN CHURCH, STATE
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
• 10 ANTI-GAY ACTIVISTS... WHO WERE OUTED AS GAY

ANTI-GAY RT IN TBLISI TTS BALANCE BETWEEN CHURCH, STATE

REUTERS/Irakli Genidze TPX IMAGES OF THE DAYJuly 8 (Rters) - Up to 2, 000 anti-LGBT protters broke up a Gay Pri ftival the Geian pal Tbilisi on Saturday, scufflg wh police and stroyg props cludg rabow flags and plards, though there were no reports of juri. Geia has passed laws agast discrimatn and hate crim, but LGBT+ rights groups say there is a lack of aquate protectn by law enforcement officials and homophobia remas wispread the socially nservative South Cs years ago, several journalists were beaten durg attacks on LGBT+ activists Tbilisi. (Istanbul) – Turkish police attacked and arrted hundreds of people at the Istanbul Pri March on June 26, 2022, a sweepg display of vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

The same day, Fahrett Altun, Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s munitns director, ma an anti-LGBT speech, sayg that “Fai and children [are] targeted through … tolerance for homosexualy propaganda” and llg homosexualy “ugls. Anti-gay protters try to attack a b wh gay activists who are beg taken away om a pro-gay-rights rally by police for their own protectn Tblisi, Geia, on May 17. Thoands of anti-gay protters, cludg Orthodox prits, occupied a central street Geia's pal.

While gay rights have been gag ground the Wt, they've been facg a strong backlash many untri of the former Soviet Unn. Gay-rights advot say the wordg of the law is so vague that n be ed to ban gay-pri paras or, fact, any public discsn of same-sex issu.

Homosexualy was a crime the former Soviet Unn, and remas so former Soviet republics such as Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In Geia's pal cy, Tblisi, a mob of thoands attacked a small group of people who were stagg a prott agast homophobia.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

Prits Among Vlent Attackers The cint began when members of Geia's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny and their supporters obtaed a perm to hold a vigil on the steps of parliament. They planned to mark the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia on May 17.

No Kharchilava scrib how the mob at the May 17 monstratn attacked her and fellow pro-gay-rights activists after police put them on a mib for their protectn. Led by Orthodox prits, the crowd overwhelmed the police barrier around the small group of anti-homophobia monstrators.

Botkovali says the church oppos homosexualy, but don't seek to terfere wh what gay people do private. Where the fahful mt speak out, he says, is when LGBT people seek to spread what he lls "homosexual propaganda.

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

Mikael Botkovali of the Geian Orthodox Church says homosexuals "will go to hell, " but he nmns the prits who led a mob agast LGBT monstrators Tblisi. A Tt For The Rule Of Law But gay-rights activist Irakli Vacharadze says that so far, the civil punishment hasn't been strong enough to show that Geia's new ernment is willg to apply the le of law to such a popular and powerful stutn as the church. " Lasha Bakradze, the head of the Geian Lerature Mm Tblisi, helped anize an onle petn agast homophobic vlence.

Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene. Image source, North Country Off Grid/Youtube/via RtersImage ptn, Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene.

10 ANTI-GAY ACTIVISTS... WHO WERE OUTED AS GAY

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A few weeks before 31 members of a whe supremacist group were arrted for allegedly planng to rt at a northern Idaho LGBTQ pri event, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment. A 2017 photo of the Internatnal Homomonument at The Hague.

A monument the Netherlands that is dited to LGBTQ people who have been persecuted due to their sexual orientatn has been vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. The Internatnal Homomonument on the Koekamp, a seven-meter tall steel sculpture, is signed to memorate all people who have been persecuted or opprsed bee of their sexual orientatn, both at the prent time and the past. The graffi pated at the monument se and on the bench clud drawgs and anti-gay slogans, cludg “fuck gays, ’ “fuck Pri, ” and “weg met pri, ” or “down wh Pri.

“It is a ser form of vandalism that stems om homophobia, ” she said, acrdg to the NL Tim. “The Homomonument is a symbol of acceptance and eedom.