ADDED ON: 01/20/2020
The Human Rights Watch report states that Azerbaijani authorities continue to exact tight control over the political system and persecute critics. There was at least one known police operation where they detained…
ADDED ON: 12/17/2019
Conflicts around gender and sexuality are often indicators of social tension. A recent public clash over the screening of a film in Tbilisi gives insight into the fault lines of contemporary politics…
ADDED ON: 11/10/2019
Police in Georgia said on Saturday they had arrested more than 25 people after ultra-nationalist protesters attempting to derail the premiere of an award-winning movie about gay love clashed with security forces.…
ADDED ON: 11/07/2019
After winning accolades abroad, a Georgian movie about gay love is drawing threats at home, with far-right groups threatening to block Friday’s premiere in the conservative Caucasian nation. “And Then We Danced”,…
ADDED ON: 09/19/2019
Homophobia and a “Soviet hangover” are driving HIV infections in parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to David Furnish, AIDS campaigner and Sir Elton John’s husband. While the rate of…
ADDED ON: 08/22/2019
The bullying of Georgia’s gay community has at times taken on a medieval air: A local “knight” and his loyal legion of thugs have for years sought to smite any attempt by…
ADDED ON: 07/25/2019
LGBT activists in the Republic of Georgia this summer have been looking for ways to hold a parade on the streets of the capital, Tbilisi. While pride parades are common across the…
ADDED ON: 07/09/2019
Demonstrators demanding the resignation of Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia have been confronted by antigay and pro-Russian activists on the 20th day of protests in Tbilisi. The rival demonstrators spent the night…
ADDED ON: 07/08/2019
An action planned by the Georgian LGBT community near the Interior Ministry's building in Tbilisi on Monday has been called off, Tbilisi Pride co-leader Giorgi Tabagari told the press. "We will not…
ADDED ON: 06/23/2019
Georgia's LGBT community has posted the Dignity March planned in Tbilisi for June 23 due to the tense situation in the country. "Given the events on Rustaveli Avenue and the tense political…
ADDED ON: 06/15/2019
Participants of a protest demonstration of LGBT activists in the center of Tbilisi in front of the government office building clashed with Orthodox activists last evening. The latter tried to prevent LGBT…
ADDED ON: 02/22/2019
LGBT Pride Week will be held in Tbilisi from 18-23 June and is organized by Tbilisi Pride. Preparations for the event have already begun, and a preliminary programme of events has been…
1161 N OGDEN DR, #109
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046
PHONE: (424) 272-5924
EMAIL: info@alturi.org
©2020 Alturi
