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Opinion | Kashia doesn’t need support, queer people do
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Opinion | Kashia doesn’t need support, queer people do

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In the face of abuse and threats over wearing a rainbow armband at a match, Georgia’s football captain, Guram Kashia, has received an unprecedented outpouring of support. Regardless of how much this support means for the queer community, we need to ask whether it is really for them, given that Kashia’s most prominent supporters have avoided mentioning queer people entirely. Guram Kashia’s rainbow armband has hit Georgia like a thunderstorm, triggering a heated debate over queer rights like

Georgians divided over football captain’s #EqualGame award
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Georgians divided over football captain’s #EqualGame award

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The captain of Georgia’s National Football team, Guram Kashia, has met both backlash and support online and in the media after UEFA announced they were awarding him with their first #EqualGame award for his ‘courageous public stand for equality’. While some supported Kashia’s right to freedom of speech, or his support for queer rights, far-right groups vowed a rally outside Georgia’s match against Latvia in September. Georgian police summoned Konstantine Morgoshia, one of the leaders of the

Georgian footballer receives UEFA award for support of queer rights
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Georgian footballer receives UEFA award for support of queer rights

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UEFA has granted the captain of Georgia’s national football team, Guram Kashia, its inaugural #EqualGame award for his ‘courageous public stand for equality’. Last year, Kashia wore a rainbow armband during a game for Dutch team SBV Vitesse, and despite facing heavy backlash in Georgia, made further statements in support of equality. On Wednesday, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) issued a statement with UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin congratulating Kashia ‘for his st

Georgian footballer meets backlash after wearing rainbow armband
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Georgian footballer meets backlash after wearing rainbow armband

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A number of Georgian football players and officials have joined Guram Kashia in support of queer rights in Georgia. Far-right groups have rallied in response, against what they term ‘gay propaganda’. Kashia, captain of Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem and vice-captain of Georgia’s national team, played a match in mid-October with his captain’s armband in rainbow colours, in solidarity with queer people. This served as a symbol of the Dutch Football Union’s campaign to promote diversity, according

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