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10 Queer Illustrators on Instagram

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With the help of modern technology, it has become easier to express your emotions, thoughts and feelings. The popularity of illustrators and other graphics programs has grown exponentially in recent years.

Here are 10 queer illustrators from around the world who portray LGBTQI+ themes in their work, they are not intimidated by existing systems and try to show us the power of equality, love, protest and being queer.

Ruth Mora

Ruth Mora is an American artist of Mexican descent whose work is inspired by punk, pop culture, comics from the music of the 50s and 80s of the last century, fashion and cinema. Queer culture and feminist messages occupy a large place in her graphic works.

Check out the artist’s work on their Instagram page

Wednesday Holmes

Wednesday Holmes is a 25-year-old British queer artist whose illustrations show an abundance of light colors. Their main inspiration is queer people and they create illustrations for them. The artist has collaborated with fashion house Gucci and the BBC at various times.

Check out the artist’s work on their Instagram page

Liberty Antonia Sadler

Liberty Antonia Sadler is a British illustrator and filmmaker whose work is based on body politics and seeks to resist objectification, the negative aspects of photo manipulation, and the depressing standards of beauty. They often paint women who live in larger bodies, are proud and do not shy away from demonstrating their own sexuality.

Check out the artist’s work on their Instagram page

ASHTON ATTZS

ASHTON ATTZS is another British artist who tries to present the everyday life of queer people with their creativity. In their creations you will meet a lot of colors and cartoon characters with strong messages. In 2018, their work “Don’t Stay in Ya Lane” won the Evening Standard Art Prize.

Check out the artist’s work on their Instagram page

David Jester

David Jester is an American artist and illustrator who paints queer men in swimming pools. The artist tries to raise his voice against all forms of oppression, toxic masculinity and discrimination with his works, while the swimming pool, which is found in all his paintings, represents life.

Check out the artist’s work on his Instagram page

Jonathan Lyndon Chase

Jonathan Lyndon Chase is a 33-year-old American queer artist whose work is inspired by African American culture. Their works are distinguished by a poetic vision and represent human pain, pleasure, desires and tenderness.

Check out the artist’s work on their Instagram page

Homo Riot

The artist, who bears the name of Homo Riot, lives in Los Angeles and in addition to their work on social networks, you will meet their works on the streets of Los Angeles, on the walls of old buildings and various constructions. their goal is to portray stony love as boldly as heterosexual couples do.

Check out the artist’s work on his Instagram page

Marcos Chin

Marcos Chin is a New York-based artist who has worked with companies such as The New Yorker, Vogue, Time, Starbucks, HBO, Google and Honda at various times.

Check out the artist’s work on their Instagram page

Gabriella Grimes

Gabriella Grimes is a 25-year-old Philadelphia queer artist who tries to portray a world where queer people of different skin tones live happily ever after.

Check out the artist’s work on their Instagram page

Bobby Lynn Larson

The work of Colombian artist Bobby Lynn Larson is inspired by the country music of the 1960s country and country women performers. The aim of the artist is to better acquaint novice queers with the queer movements of the twentieth century and the people who contributed to the development of queer politics.

Check out the artist’s work on her Instagram page

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5 Female Authors that Will Make Your Summer More Diverse

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Summer is the best time to discover new authors and embark on new adventures, especially if you spend your vacation somewhere out of town, at sea or in the mountains.

In recent years, both in the world and Georgian literature, there are more and more female authors, who, with their vision, make the reader’s experience even more interesting and diverse.

In today’s article, we will present 5 books by women authors, who touch upon various trendy topics with great mastery and describe the world in a realistic way in their work.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi – Americana

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi is a Nigerian author who earned her fame from the famous TEDx Talk show, “We Should All Be Feminist”.

The writer was born in Nigeria and skin color was never a problem for her until she moved to America. In “Americana,” published in 2013, the author shares exactly this experience and shows us what life is like for non-Americans and non-whites in America’s dream land.

At first glance, it may seem that the book is far from the problems that Georgian society is facing today, but reading the novel, you will see for yourself that in reality people are more alike than they are different, and despite geographical distance or skin color, problems, hardship and humiliation It affects all nations equally.

This book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adic is full of love, hope and compassion just like the author. The author looks for reasons for hatred, inequality, alienation and tries to change the world for the better, and you, too, realize when you read that you become part of these changes.

The book was translated into Georgian by Ekaterine Machitidze.

Keti Nizharadze – Sunny Side

Even when the Soviet Union was in its last decade and Georgia knew nothing about the horrific 1990s that were soon approaching. A woman lived in Tbilisi who wrote about women’s problems and the difficulties of being a woman in a world ruled by men.

This woman’s name is Keti Nizharadze and until now she was known only to a narrow circle of readers. However, thanks to “Melani” her full work was published, called “Sunny Side”. It incorporates the author’s short novel “autoportrait”, unfinished novel “Sunny Side” and a few other short stories.

Keti Nizharadze’s texts are characterized by truthfulness and simplicity, her texts fill a kind of literary emptiness and show that the daily life of women has not changed significantly during the last 40 years and their struggle for freedom, love and development is still ongoing.

Unfortunately, Keti Nizharadze left this fight in 2000, at the age of 45, ended her life by committing suicide. However, there are literary texts that will surely find the reader in the present as well and will give another life to the author.

Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other

In 2019, the Booker International Prize was awarded simultaneously to two authors, Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale, and Bernardine Evaristo. This was the first time in the history of British Booker that an award was given to a woman of color.

”Girl, Woman, Other ” is a polyphonic novel where the author does not concentrate on just one character but devotes the pages of the book to many different characters and their stories. Ama, Yazi, Dominic, Carol, Boomy, La Tisha, Shirley, Winsom, Penelope – this is a non-exhaustive list of the characters you will meet in the book. Their problems are different, though they have one thing in common, they find it equally difficult to find their way in this world because of their gender.

In Bernardine Evaristo’s book you will meet all kinds of women, women who are at the peak of professional development, women who are engaged in housework, women who have children, women who are in an unhappy marriage and finally, you get the feeling that you listened to all women. You took a look at their lives and that is probably the main purpose of this book.

The book by Bernardin Evaristo was translated by Tamar Japaridze.

Sally Rooney – Normal People

Writing about love and couples in our century has become especially difficult. On the one hand, many books have been written on the subject and all authors have to go through a very difficult path to avoid falling into the whirlpool of banality. On the other hand, we no longer hear about heartfelt love stories as much.

The young Irish author, Sally Rooney, took this task well and in just a few years published a book that applies equally to readers of all ages or experiences. It is impossible to have been in love at least once and not understand Marianne and Connell.

Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” differs from other books about love in that the book’s characters are millennial children of the modern world who share a story full of their resistance, passion, pain and love.

The book was translated by Guram Gongadze.

Rosa Liksom – Coupe number 6

Rosa Liksom is a Finnish author of several novels. Only coupe number 6 was translated from her books into Georgian and tells the story of a Finnish girl traveling by train to the abandoned villages and cities of Russia.

The girl doesn’t travel alone, there is a middle-aged Russian man with a distorted worldview in her coupe and the girl is forced to listen to the man all the way.

The novel is especially interesting today, when our citizens are burning the EU flag and looking at the road toward Russia with more hope. This book clearly shows what Russia is like today, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the book Coupe Number six you can see deserted cities and large rivers, which so well reflect the modern look of Russia.

Based on the book, a film was also released in 2021, which just a few weeks ago was awarded a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

The book was translated from Finnish by Dimitri Gogolashvili.

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The Majority of This Country Is Not So Full of Hatred and Disgust – Anna Subeliani

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Yesterday, on TV Pirveli, Ana Subeliani commented:

”Gharibashvili declared the tyranny of the majority and said that it will be as the majority decides. First of all, we all agree that this position and wording is wrong in itself, but do not be deceived, friends – I’m sure none of you believe that the majority in this country wants something, like what happened on July 5th to happen. It’s not like that, the majority is not violent, we may have problems with homophobia and intolerance in society, and this homophobia has its degrees, but the majority of this country really does not have such hatred.”

Photo: Vakho Kareli

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Amazon Refuses to Stop Selling Anti-Trans Book

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Two Amazon employees have quit over the online retailer’s refusal to stop selling an anti-trans book that has caused massive controversy since its release last June.

In April, 467 corporate Amazon employees supported an internal complaint against Irreversible Damage, a contentious book penned by Wall Street Journal columnist Abigail Shrier whose subtitle warns that the “transgender craze” is “seducing” young girls into transitioning. Employees claimed Shrier’s stance is not in line with an Amazon policy rolled out in March banning sales of books that position LGBTQ+ identities as mental illnesses, according to NBC News.

At least two workers reportedly resigned after Amazon affirmed in May that it would continue to allow retailers to sell Irreversible Damage on its platform. The company’s director of book content risk and quality claimed that the book “does not violate [its] content policy,” as the Seattle Times reported.

While Shrier does not explicitly run afoul of Amazon’s guidelines by likening transgender identities to mental disorders, her thesis is nonetheless harmful. As record numbers of LGBTQ+ youth live their most authentic lives, Shrier alleges that this phenomenon is due not to increasing societal acceptance but to what is often referred to as “rapid onset gender dysphoria.” She argues that young women have been influenced by “hip trans YouTube stars and ‘gender-affirming’ educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls.”

The underlying principle of Irreversible Damage is, thus, that being transgender has become trendy and that cis girls are hopping on the bandwagon because they think it’s cool. This is despite the fact that the notion of transness as a social contagion has been thoroughly criticized and referred to as “bad science.”

And considering that more than half of trans and nonbinary youth have considered taking their lives in the past year, according to the Trevor Project, it’s unlikely kids are coming out to fit in.

Shrier has repeatedly claimed that Irreversible Damage — which was released by the right-wing publishing house Regnery in June 2020 — is not transphobic. “Anyone who thinks my book ‘advances the narrative of transgender identity as a disease’ hasn’t read it, or is a bona fide idiot,” she tweeted on May 3 in response to a Seattle Times article about the controversy her book has stirred.

In an interview with Seattle Times, Shrier claimed her work respects decisions made by trans adults to live in accordance with their gender identity, while adding that her goal was to warn parents about the “fast-tracking of youth” into medical transitions. Even this assertion strains credulity: Children are subject to extensive screenings — including appointments with therapists, counselors, and endocrinologists — and often require multiple letters of consent before medical treatment can begin.

Dr. Jack Turban, a chief child psychiatry fellow at Stanford Medicine, noted in an op-ed for Psychology Today that Shrier failed to actually interview most of the teens whose stories she told. He added that it is “rare for transgender youth to later decide they are cisgender” after reaching adolescence.

Irreversible Damage has sparked not only backlash but also confusion over what to do about it. In November, Target said it would remove the book from its shelves, only to change its mind in a matter of hours after being criticized for “censorship.” Shrier claimed in March that Target had pulled the book again, and a search of the company’s website shows it is no longer available to purchase online.

Many say Amazon’s decision to continue allowing sales of Irreversible Damage puts the safety of trans youth at stake. Amazon employees are concerned that the book is the first result when searching transgender topics on its platform.

“Due to our success and scale, our customers will come to us seeking to educate themselves about their transgender children,” wrote an employee in an internal message board, as cited by NBC News. “We have a responsibility to make sure that we do not use our powerful market position to amplify the harm this book causes.”

A representative for Amazon has signaled the company won’t reverse its stance, even despite internal strife.

“As a bookseller, we believe that providing access to written speech and a variety of viewpoints is one of the most important things we do — even when those viewpoints differ from our own or Amazon’s stated positions,” spokesperson Cecelia Fan said in a statement to NBC News.

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Hungary Pushes National Referendum to Defend Anti-LGBTQ+ “Propaganda” Law

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán plans to defend a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ law enacted last month by putting the issue up to a public vote. In a Wednesday video posted on Facebook, the far-right leader announced that he will push for a national referendum in which Hungarian voters will weigh in on the law, which was recently met with a lawsuit from the European Union (EU). Partially inspired by Russia’s 2013 anti-gay “propaganda” ban, it forbids children under 18 from accessing information on “homosexuality or gender change” in schools and the media.

“The future of our children is at stake, so we cannot cede ground in this issue,” Orbán said in the video, as Al-Jazeera first reported. “In the past weeks, Brussels has clearly attacked Hungary over its child protection law. Hungarian laws do not permit sexual propaganda in kindergartens, schools, on television and in advertisements.”

The move is a clear rebuke to European leaders, who have strongly denounced the anti-LGBTQ+ law since its passage. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutter urged Hungary to leave the EU over the discriminatory measure, saying Hungary has “no place” in the 27-country federation. Xavier Bettel, the openly gay PM of Luxembourg, reportedly confronted Orbán directly in a closed door meeting in June.

“My grandfather was Jewish, I’m gay and can live freely,” Bettel said in a meeting of EU leadership, as CNN reported. “And then I read this law. I know what happens when you turn people into a minority.”

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, added that the EU’s executive branch would utilize “all powers available” to oppose the law, which she referred to as a “disgrace.” This includes a legal challenge under Article 21 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, which states that “stigmatizing LGBTIQ persons [constitutes] a clear breach of their fundamental right to dignity.”

The case could ultimately end up decided by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has the ability to impose significant fines against Hungary. It could take years before the matter is resolved.

Source: them.us

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The US is Sending Dozens of LGBTQ + Athletes to the Olympics

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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are starting and it looks like it will be the most queer Olympics of all time.

According to Outsports, more than 140 LGBTQ + athletes will compete in 26 sports, representing at least 25 countries. In total, eight times more openly queer female athletes will participate in the Olympics than men. The US has the largest number, sending more than 30 LGBTQ + athletes to Japan.

Unfortunately, several important people will be excluded from the competition – fans are sad that their favorite queer athlete, runner Shakari Richardson, was disqualified after being tested for doping. Also no longer participating will be transgender runner Sisi Telfer, who went down in history in 2019 as the first openly trans woman to win the NCAA Championship.

Still, dozens of American athletes will be added to the Olympics. For example, the favorite couple of Americans, football star Megan Rapinoe and basketball star Su Bird.

We will introduce you to some of them and briefly tell you about them:

Raven Sanders – shot put and discus throw

This will be Sanders’ second Olympics since finishing 5th at the 2016 Rio Games. She speaks openly about her identity. Sanders came out in her freshman year and said she would never be ashamed of her identity – a black queer woman. “People can say whatever they want to say, but I do not care, because I’m what I’m like!” she says. She spoke openly about her mental health and that she was suffering from suicidal thoughts. “I feel that the more I talk, the better my chances of reaching out to one, two or three people,” she said in an interview with one of the publications.

Chelsea Gray – Basketball

Chelsea Gray joins the U.S. team for the first time this year to help the women’s basketball team win its 7th gold medal. In 2016, she suffered a knee injury that made her future in basketball uncertain. At a press conference in June, Chelsea spoke about how she felt when she heard he shad won a place on the Olympic team: ” It was very emotional, I started crying. It took me a long time to get to this stage and my journey was not easy. ”

Gray recently signed with the Las Vegas Ace and also played for the Connecticut Sun at the Los Angeles Sparks, with whom she won the 2016 WNBA Championship.

In 2019, she married Typesa Moore, about whom she often posts on Instagram: “I will always choose you, I know what love is and it’s because of you” she wrote.

Kayla Mirikali – Wrestling

Kaila will be the first openly LGBTQ + wrestler to compete in the modern Olympics.

In an interview with Outsports, Kayla says she is proud to be an open lesbian.

Mirikal started wrestling at the age of 4 and competed with boys, thinking for a long time that even a dream of Olympic gold was superfluous. Women’s wrestling at the Olympics was added in 2004. The four-time national champion is now ready to compete in Tokyo. ” I am very grateful to those who always supported me! I can’t wait, I want to represent these people in Tokyo! ” – she writes.

Erika Bugardi – Heptathlon

In 2019, Erika Bugardi’s rainbow shoes caused a stir, which she wore while competing in the IAAF Athletics Championships in Qatar, where homosexuality is criminalized. Bugard then said she was just wearing her favorite shoes and was not trying to make a statement. However, she noted that she was not afraid of being fired – “I’m not afraid of the future, I feel safe.”

Bugard believes it is necessary to use her status as a sportswoman to support the LGBTQ + community. “I feel that we, the athletes, can make an impact because a lot of people are watching us. It’s necessary because people hate people because of who they love.”

In Tokyo, Bugard will compete in a seven-stage heptathlon.

Adriana French – Football

Goalkeeper Adriana French sets new records. French is the only player to have won the Women’s National League (NWSL) twice in 2017-2018.

In 2019, Adriana married Healthy Nutrition Consultant Emily Boscachi. That same year, she competed (and won) the World Women’s National Cup as a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT).

Kristen Thomas – Rugby

Kristen Thomas started playing rugby in 2011 when she was a freshman at the University of Florida. Since then, she has competed in two American women’s competitions and the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup.

She had to miss the 2016 Olympics due to injury, but now she has left for Tokyo as a teammate of the US team.

“It’s really a dream. Especially after the last failure. It was a bit difficult to dream again, but I think I overcame it and at this point I’m excited to be given this opportunity,” she said.

Perry Benegas – BMX Freestyle

Perry Benegas became interested in BMX while riding with her brother and friends on a bicycle. She won a gold medal at the 2018 World Cup.

It will be the first year of BMX Freestyle as an Olympic event, and Benegas can’t wait to take part in it. “It is unthinkable just to know that our sport is recognized at such a level and gives people the opportunity to compete,” she said in 2018.

Benegas came out in May, via an Instagram post. ” All my life I have been looking for happiness. For the first time in my life, I’m very excited to be able to live freely and be myself with all my heart.”

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Karine Jean-Pierre, Black Queer Woman, Named to Historic Post in White House

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Two queer women of color made history on Sunday after being named to President-elect Joe Biden’s all-female communications team.

“I’m so proud that our communications team for the Biden-Harris administration is a roster filled w/ rockstar women… ,” she said. “All will bring dignity, professionalism and expertise to their respective roles!”

As the Biden-Harris administration fills out posts in its cabinet and positions throughout the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre and Pili Tobar will be two of the seven women in charge of coordinating its media and press response. Jean-Pierre, former chief public affairs officer for the progressive advocacy group MoveOn.org, has been tapped as White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary, while Tobar, who previously was the deputy director for America’s Voice, will serve as White House Deputy Communications Director.

In a statement, Biden lauded his appointments as “qualified, experienced communicators.” As the only White House in history to have its entire comms department staffed by women, the president-elect said the new press and media corps will “bring diverse perspectives to their work and a shared commitment to building this country back better.”

Harris further praised the administration’s selections as “experienced, talented, and barrier-shattering.”

“Our country is facing unprecedented challenges — from the coronavirus pandemic to the economic crisis, to the climate crisis, and a long-overdue reckoning over racial injustice,” she said in a press release. “To overcome these challenges, we need to communicate clearly, honestly, and transparently with the American people, and this… team will help us do that.”

Jean-Pierre and Tobar aren’t the only LGBTQ+ person to be part of the incoming White House: They will be joined by White House Social Secretary Carlos Elizondo, the first queer Latinx person to serve in the position. His appointment was announced last week, with more LGBTQ+ picks expected to come.

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The EU Is Taking Action to Fight Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Hungary and Poland

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The European Union is officially taking Hungary and Poland to court for alleged human rights abuses against the LGBTQ+ community. The European Commission announced on Thursday it is filing action over actions the EU’s executive branch claims discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.

In June, Hungary passed a Russia-style “propaganda” law banning the promotion of “homosexuality” or “gender change” to minors in schools and the media, including everything from TV to advertisements. Meanwhile, over 100 municipalities in Poland have declared themselves “LGBT free” in a series of symbolic resolutions passed since 2019.

These policies violate Article 2 of the Treaty of the European Union, according to the European Commission. While the 1992 declaration does not specifically mention LGBTQ+ equality, a press release claims the treaty enshrines “equality and the respect for dignity and human rights [as] core values of the EU.”

The legal action was widely expected after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged last week that the EU would employ “all powers available” to oppose the anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown in Hungary and Poland. In addition to its “propaganda” law, Hungary has also passed legislation since 2020 banning trans people from correcting their legal gender marker and outlawing same-sex adoptions.

Hungary and Poland will have two months to respond to the suit before the case moves forward. The lawsuit could end up ultimately decided by the European Court of Justice, the EU’s highest legal authority, which has the ability to impose significant fines against the nations over their LGBTQ+ rights violations.

Hungary’s “propaganda” law, which formally went into effect last week, had already caused major harm to the country’s LGBTQ+ community. An independent bookstore in Budapest was slapped with a $700 fine for selling a book depicting same-sex families, while a transgender teacher in the Hungarian capital city recently told Reuters that he worries he could be forced out of his job.

“I kept pouring over the law to see whether I could even continue teaching,” said Floris Fellegi-Balta, who teaches high school chemistry. “One interpretation of the law is that by showing up and teaching, I am displaying transsexuality.”

But despite major backlash against the draconian policies — including calls from foreign leaders to leave the EU — Hungary has signaled that it is not backing down. Last week, the chief of staff for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Gergely Gulyás, told Reuters that the EU’s “efforts to have us allow LGBT+ activists into schools and nursery schools are in vain,” and Orbán personally spoke out against the pending lawsuit. “The European Commission’s stance is shameful,” the far-right leader said in an interview with a government-run Hungarian radio station, according to Reuters. He went on to liken the EU’s actions to “legalized hooliganism.”

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Queers Also Joined Yesterday’s Silent Rally

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Yesterday, July 19, within the framework of an international conference, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, the President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, visited Batumi.

In parallel with the conference, a silent rally was taking place in the surrounding area. Protesters on July 5 and in general, protested against the ongoing processes in the country, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Gharibashvili and the punishment of those responsible for the incident.

Representatives of the queer community were also present at the protest.

”We met Charles Michel, who visited Georgia for the Batumi conference. Due to the recent socio-political background, I thought it was important to be there. “Shame Movement” activists, civil society representatives, journalists and simply citizens were with me at the rally. By standing there, I reminded Gharibashvili and his government once again that an unconstitutional, anti-state government must leave and punish the perpetrators. On the other hand, we met Charles Michel and our European partners symbolically and reminded them of the inability of our government and the desire of the majority of the Georgian people to be part of the European family. No serious incidents took place at the rally. The flags of Georgia, the European Union, Ukraine and Belarus were unfolded. ” – Tamaz Sozashvili

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They Are Constantly Stirring Up This Controversy and Thus Trying to Maintain Power – Giorgi Kikonishvili

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In the program “Real Space”, queer activist Giorgi Kikonishvili talked about the pride week and events that took place following 5th of July:

“A classic line of power has been established in Georgia, the main principle of which is ” Divide and Conquer ”. This line has become mainstream and we are fed up with watching how people follow it, creating conflicts between groups and then acting as if they are the conciliator. These groups aren’t just Queer groups and the society, or ethnical groups and the society; it isn’t just the issue of majority versus minority. They are constantly stirring up this controversy and trying to maintain power through these controversies because the opposing groups no longer have the physical resources to confront the one who is truly the source of power and violence.

Despite this, I still believe that the last decade was a time of transformation of awareness for us. We came to an understanding that we shouldn’t have hope in anyone but ourselves, our friends, and people that share our opinions. The moment in which we gained this awareness is when we started the process of making harmonious connections.

Clearly, whatever happened on 5th and 6th of July, had begun way earlier than that. I think it all started on 17th of May in 2013. That’s when the classical scenario took place, in which a conflict was created in order for them to pretend that they are the conciliator, leaving the society in a constant state of controversy and mutual hatred. This can be seen on a very large scale on May 17, 2013, when neither side had expected it. This was the period in which the previous government was recently gone, a new government is in place and someone has to say that they, in fact, have the power. That someone turned out to be church, of course.

July 5-6, in my opinion, was a very feeble and duplicitous attempt to repeat this scenario. In addition, various forms of power have been created, I even find it difficult to name them, and I think that this is their advantage and poses a great danger to us. They keep saying that we are the majority, which is really just an illusion.

This is a great illusion and everyone who believes in it will be hurt in the end. This is because, as I mentioned, the last decade was a period of transformation, when the citizens of Georgia and various groups, no matter if they’re women, men, gay, heterosexual, Georgian, Armenian… – That is how we understand how power works and how that power is used over us.”

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