A year after anti-LGBTQ terrorist attack, Tbilisi Pride looks ahead
It was meant to be more than a day of festivities.
Planned in the spring of 2021, Tbilisi Pride, the main LGBTQ organization operating in the nation of Georgia, announced in early June of that year that Pride events would begin on the first day of the following month and continue for almost an entire week.
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By July 6, 2021, the same organizers were processing horrific details of a terroristic response to the capstone March for Dignity which rained down upon the queer community and members of the media at the hands of far-right fascist political organizations and the Georgian Orthodox church.
Headlines across the world indicated just how rapidly something joyful devolved into a terrifying and traumatic event.
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Tabagari added this reminder: “It’s important to understand that homophobia is the tool for Russia to destabilize Georgia. Not only Georgia, almost all countries in the neighborhood, and pro-Russian forces are on the frontline with anti-LGBTQ policies, playing with nationalistic sentiments while polarizing society.”
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