Georgia
Patriarch Shio III targets abortion, ‘gender ideology’ on ‘Family Purity Day’
Patriarch Shio III made remarks after the Family Purity Day March.
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Karachay–Cherkessia
Group of queer men detained in Karachay–Cherkessia on charges of participation in an ‘extremist organisation’
Their ‘guilt’ lies in the fact that they were members of an online dating group.
Chechnya
Calls to remove Chechen activist from PACE after comments in support of honour killings
Ruslan Kutaev remarked that no one has the right to condemn a family over a decision ‘to kill, return home or marry off’ a family member.
Azerbaijan
Hunting in the Labyrinth: the lasting effects of Azerbaijan’s raid on queer nightlife
What the latest raid on a queer nightclub in Baku reveals about the future of queer life in Azerbaijan.
Reviews
Review | A Room of My Own — queerness and constraint in Georgia
A Room of My Own is an intimate but unfinished portrait of female friendship, desire, and self-discovery in contemporary Tbilisi.
Daghestan
Makhachkala bookshop fined for ‘LGBT propaganda’ in books by Le Guin and Backman
This is the first such protocol in the North Caucasus against a bookshop.
Georgia
How sexual extortion turns intimacy into terror in Georgia
Criminal prosecutions related to sexual extortion cases have nearly doubled since 2020, though the real number of cases is almost certainly higher.
