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Georgia's First LGBT+ Pride March Called off Amid Political Turmoil

Reuters

   TBILISI, GEORGIA - Organizers of Georgia's first LGBT+ pride march
   called off the event at the eleventh hour Friday after a wave of
   political unrest in Tbilisi that left hundreds of people injured.

   LGBT+ Georgians had been planning to go ahead with a rally in the
   capital despite threats from extreme right-wing groups and fierce
   opposition from the influential Orthodox Church.

   They postponed the march after police used tear gas and fired rubber
   bullets to stop crowds angered by the visit of a Russian lawmaker from
   storming the parliament building.

   "There won't be a march tomorrow," Giorgi Tabagari, one of the event
   promoters, announced Friday, with tensions still running high in the
   capital of the former Soviet republic.

   Organizers said the rally would be held at a later date that was yet to
   be confirmed.

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