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Note on reporting May 17 events

Every year until 2020 we used to feature on Country Pages, which can be accessed via the interactive world map, as much information on May 17 events as we could find. We are currently unfortunately not in a capacity to...

joel September 8, 2021

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2020 – Country page – Georgia

Georgian activists from Tbilisi Pride decided to show both solidarity and pride on the occasion of forthcoming #IDAHOBIT. They will disseminate safety masks, featuring rainbow colours, to supporters and community members in need.

Editor1 May 13, 2020

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Georgia Country Page 2019

TBILISI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A thousand colored stickers with messages against discrimination were posted across the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Friday to highlight LGBT+ people’s struggle for acceptance in the conservative former Soviet republic. The initiative coincided with...

joel May 18, 2019

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Small gay rights IDAHOTB rally held in Tbilisi amid fears of violence

Report by Eurasianet The original reports contain more pics and videos, not reproduced here Activists ceded the streets to homophobic priests and neo-Nazis. Giorgi Lomsadze May 17, 2018 Gay rights groups in Georgia called off a planned rally on May...

Vicky May 17, 2018

IDAHOT Report 2016: Georgia

Activists in Georgia faced many difficulties this year. Since anti-LGBT attacks in 2013 targeted IDAHOT celebrations, the community and activists have continued to experience persecution and threats that make public events very difficult to organize. Anti-LGBT sentiment was also supported this...

IDAHO May 23, 2016

IDAHOT Reports 2016 NEWS & EVENTS

Police arrests mark IDAHOT 2016 in Caucasus state of Georgia

From Gaystarnews At the break of dawn, 10 LGBTI rights activists were arrested by police for protesting in the former Soviet state of Georgia this morning (17 May). Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, the day when...

Vicky May 17, 2016

IDAHOT events 2015 : Reclaiming public space in Georgia

Report from Tbilissi TBILISI, DFWatch–When groups in Tbilisi wanted to mark the international day against homophobia May 17, they had to organize it in tightly-controlled secrecy and gather in silence. Time and location was secret, and everyone who showed up,...

Vicky May 10, 2015

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Be (In)visible !

Protest of the Invisible – an arts display of shoes The long walk to freedom starts with a “Stand-in” of empty shoes. Interview with activists from Tbilissi, Georgia on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2014 - Where/how did...

IDAHO September 16, 2014

IDEAS FOR ACTION

IDAHOT Report 2014: Georgia

Activists in Tbilisi, Georgia made the invisible, visible on Sunday, May 18, 2014, when they left more than 100 shoes in Pushkini Square, Tbilisi - where a planned march to commemorate the IDAHOT on May 17 had had to be...

IDAHO June 23, 2014

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A little bit of magic in Georgia…

Activists in Tbilisi, Georgia made the invisible, visible on Sunday, May 18, 2014, when they left more than 100 shoes in Pushkini Square, Tbilisi - where yesterday's IDAHOT protest had had to be called off, for security reasons. Called a...

IDAHO May 19, 2014

NEWS & EVENTS

Georgia IDAHO Report 2013

It was events in Georgia that grabbed the majority of international news headlines on the International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia 2013. Violent clashes on May 17 last year left activists uncertain as to what, if any, public action to...

IDAHO June 17, 2013

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Church Calls for Ban on IDAHOT March in Tbilisi, Georgia. Government promises to protect.

The Georgian Orthodox Church has today, (Thursday, May 16) made an announcement calling for a ban on tomorrow’s International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia march in Tbilisi, Georgia. Last year’s march was violently disrupted by religious protesters, linked to the...

IDAHO May 17, 2013

NEWS & EVENTS

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