May 17 - The security and rights of LGBT(Q)I persons remain susceptible to vulnerability
Tbilisi. According to the Social Justice Center, the security and rights of LGBT(Q)I persons remain susceptible to vulnerability.
“Despite the long history of fighting for the recognition of LGBT(Q)I persons, the real protection of the security and rights of LGBT(Q)I persons and the high level of social homophobia, which has a serious impact on the daily, public and private lives of LGBT(Q)I persons, remains a significant challenge in Georgia. The dramatic events surrounding the recognition and realization of political rights over the past 10 years show the state's demonstrative indifference, political homophobia, and its dire experience of tolerating violence. This policy has severely damaged and continues to impair the opportunities for the development of a democratic, peaceful, and pluralistic society, and has created numerous social crises. For years, the government, political parties, the church, and other actors have been trying to politically instrumentalize LBGTQI people and LGBT(Q)I issues, and this dominant policy has often led to the deprivation of LGBQI people of their lives, dignity, and future”.
Source: socialjustice.org.ge
