News

10/6/2020

Meeting about Growing Number of Attacks on Tbilisi Pride Office

9/2/2020

Public Defender Meets with Representatives of Tbilisi Pride

9/2/2020

Information about the response of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the facts of illegal actions carried out towards Tbilisi Pride office.

8/28/2020

For the past few months, the Tbilisi Pride office has been the target of intense attacks by religious and far-right groups. The attacks started following May 17, after we held an online demonstration, and, like 100 other citizens of Georgia, symbolically hung a rainbow flag from our office balcony.

8/20/2020

In the last few years far-right groups have become more visible and organized in Georgia.

7/27/2020

Online Conference "Far-right Radicalism and Democracy"

6/25/2020

Global Pride, the 24-hour virtual Pride taking place this weekend, will shine a light on LGBTQIA+ people from every continent. Organisers say it has the potential to be the largest LGBTQIA+ event ever.

6/18/2020

Documentary March for Dignity follows a small group of LGBTI+ activists in Tbilisi, Georgia as they attempt to conduct the first Pride march in the country.

3/31/2020

The Tbilisi City Court has acknowledged discriminatory treatment of the organization "Tbilisi Pride" by Promoter LLC. In June 2019, during the organization of the Pride March, Tbilisi Pride and its activists contacted Promoter LLC to print the materials necessary for this event.

2/19/2020

With the support of ILGA-Europe, in January, 2020 Tbilisi Pride started the new project "Empowering Civil Society and Queer Activists for Preventing and Countering the Far-right Movements".

2/10/2020

Public Defender of Georgia found discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and the field of activity against Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (legal entity of public law), Batumi Akaki Tsereteli Library (non-commercial legal entity) and Merab Berdzenishvili International Culture Center “Muse”.

2/8/2020

The European Commission has released a new report on the implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement. The section ‘Democracy, Human Rights and Good Governance’ mentions amendments adopted to improve the anti-discrimination law.

1/28/2020

Response of Tbilisi Pride to the statements of the president of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, and the foreign minister, David Zalkaliani at PACE.

12/25/2019

On December 9, 2019, NGO Partnership for Human Rights filed a lawsuit against Promoter Ltd. on behalf of Tbilisi Pride, in order to prove the fact of discrimination on the ground of the type of work that Tbilisi Pride is conducting which is protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ people.

12/20/2019

Co-Founder and the Director of Tbilisi Pride - Giorgi Tabagari has been named as a Personality of Future by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

12/17/2019

Briefly about about Sodom and Gomorrah, Homosexuality and Bible - blogpost of Tsvata Berdzenishvili

12/17/2019

Constitutional Court of Georgia declared 10 year ban on blood donation for MSM and Gay men as unconstitutional! Claimants were arguing that ban on MSM and Gay men was longer than it is necessary for safe donation of blood.

12/13/2019

Tbilisi Pride needs to get through December & January before our funding gets secured for the coming year. Also, we would like to produce a promotional video for the Tbilisi Pride 2020 and we are raising 5000 EUR for that cause.

12/12/2019

Tbilisi Pride has completed the process of selecting the new board members. The goal of the organization was to have a diverse and well represented board, bringing voices of different subgroups of queer community and allies.

12/5/2019

ILGA-Europe's Annual Review on the situation of LGBTI people in Europe and Central Asia has been published. Among other countries, the report covers the situation in Georgia.

11/26/2019

აია ბერაიას ქვიარ პერსპექტივა/თეორიული რეფლექსია დღევანდელ რეალობაზე.

10/31/2019

9/26/2019

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has expressed ‘concern’ over Georgia’s failure to uphold the rights of queer people, including the lack of protection for this year’s aborted Tbilisi Pride march.

9/20/2019

Opinions towards queer rights have improved among Georgia’s young people, the latest NDI/CRRC polling has found, with a plurality in support of their protection.

9/17/2019

9/7/2019

The battle goes on!

8/15/2019

Ted Jonas, a Georgian citizen of US descent who has been working in the country for 20-odd years now, practicing law, has filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General’s office, saying Georgia has “unjustifiably failed, or refused, to prosecute Georgian citizen Levan Vasadze for serious criminal acts” by violently encroaching on Constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of opinion and expression of opinion, the right to freedom of peaceful assembly without prior permission, and equal protection in case of “Tbilisi Pride”.

7/15/2019

7/9/2019

the March of Dignity - could not be held as planned

7/7/2019

We are coming out!

6/25/2019

Due to the ongoing unexpected developments in front of the parliament building and the consequent tense political environment, Tbilisi Pride team has decided to postpone the March of Dignity planned within the Pride Week by number of days.

6/24/2019

Joint Statement of the Embassies on Postponing “Dignity March” by Tbilisi Pride

1/10/2019

Statement of Tbilisi Pride regarding the Human Rights Day.