Funny how Western media never mentioned this law was going through Georgia's parliament, yet they spent months talking about what they called the "Russian law".
You must have missed it then. I've read about it several times in these articles about copying Russian laws.
it varies a lot. outside of the capital, it's almost entirely negative. inside Tbilisi, the youth (mostly female youth) tend to be more progressive when it comes to LGBT issues.
more positive in rural areas, more negative in urban areas, especially among urban youth.
it's extremely positive in Gori, where Stalin was born.
While this law sadly represents the opinions and preferences of the majority of everyone everywhere, it goes explicitly against European values
Trialling fascist laws in captured states before they enact these laws in the West?
This is a known thing the imperialists do though???
If you say so. However, this law was tested in Russia first and copied by Georgia in a turn away from the west and towards Russia
This headline linking the signing of a piece of paper to the murder of a woman really rubs me the wrong way.
I'm not going to pretend anyone at the guardian has a good analysis on anything, especially trans people.
“There is a direct correlation between the use of hate speech in politics and hate crimes,” the Social Justice Center, a Tbilisi-based human rights group, said in its statement reacting to the murder.
“It has been almost a year that the Georgian Dream government has been aggressively using homo/bi/transphobic language and cultivating it with mass propaganda means,” it added.
