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Pride Week opened with the premiere of the documentary – “March of Honor”. The event is closed and it is attended by about 300 community members and their supporters. Earlier, there was

Civic Platform “No-Phobia!”Coalition for Equality and other civil society organizations responded to the March 5 dignity march by Tbilisi Pride and Partners. Comments were made on statements by Irakli Kobakhidze, Chairman of

Today, politicians made comments on Irakli Kobakhidze’s statement and about the March of Honor in general. Salome Samadashvili – Member of Parliament: “Technically, the chairman of the ruling party announces and directly

Journalist Salome Asatiani writes about events concerning Pride on her Facebook post: “Behind every single one of your hatred phrases stand a little boy, that at this moment is being laughed at

(Elene Khoshtaria – head of political party “It’s Time”) Irrational fears surrounding 17th of May and minorities in general are, of course, not exclusive to Georian population. The issue is that these

(Khatuna Samnidze – Chairman of the Republican Party) Members of the government not only don’t work for the reduction of transphobia and homophobia, by increasing awareness, but in turn use LGBTQ community

(Gigi Tsereteli – Politician, Member of the Parliament of Georgia five times (1999, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016), President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly from 2017 to December 14, 2020) Aggressive and homophobic

(Ucha Nanuashvili – Public Defender of Georgia from December 2012 to December 2017, Head of the Institute for Democracy Research) The main problem is the state policy of pushing out the LGBT

(Mikheil Kumsishvili – Labor Party Youth Wing Leader) The church declaring the 17th of May as Familiy Sanctity day is their counterattack against LGBTQ community, who is protesting against oppression on homophobic