Opinion | Tbilisi Pride is a test for Georgia’s democracy

The worsening rights situation has forced many queer Georgians to leave the country. Georgian politicians and civil society need to make a choice, do they want a western, or a Russian-style democracy. The decision to organise Tbilisi Pride was neither spontaneous nor easy to make, considering the deeply ingrained homophobia and transphobia in our society, the rise of the far right, and the hatred and aggression spread by the Georgian Orthodox Church over the past years. The state has also r