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Georgian anti-LGBTQ law
The Georgian anti-LGBT propaganda law (Georgian: საქართველოს კანონი ლგბტ პროპაგანდის წინააღმდეგ, romanized: sakartvelos k'anoni lgbt' p'rop'agandis ts'inaaghmdeg), formally the Law on Family Values and Protection of Minors (Georgian: საქართველოს კანონი ოჯახური ღირებულებებისა და არასრულწლოვნების დაცვის შესახებ, romanized: sakartvelos k'anoni ojakhuri ghirebulebebisa da arasrults'lovnebis datsvis shesakheb), is a legislative package in Georgia that was passed with the third and final reading by the Parliament of Georgia on 17 September 2024 and was signed into effect on 3 October 2024. Its introduction was announced by the Chairman of Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili on 4 June. The package consists of the "core law", the Law on Family Values and Protection of Minors, and 18 amendments which modified various existing laws in Georgia, including the Civil Code, the Labor Code, the General Education Act etc.
The legislation was supported by the ruling Georgian Dream party, its ally People's Power, and the pro-government European Socialists party. The bill's voting was boycotted by opposition parties, except Girchi, which attended the session and criticized the bill. The opposition For Georgia party, while not attending the parliamentary discussion, still voiced partial support for the bill.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili refused to sign the bill, returning it to the Georgian Parliament, after which Chairman of Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili signed the bill into the law.
The bill was met by international condemnation from Western countries and organizations such as the EU and US. The EU described the bill as "harmful" and stated that it was considering stripping Georgians of visa free travel to the EU and freezing other agreements such as EU candidacy following the passage of the bill. While most of Georgians support the European integration, most Georgians at the same time have negative opinion on the LGBT movement and consider homosexuality to be unacceptable.
Following the EU, the US likewise sanctioned various members of the Georgian parliament following passage of the bill.
The legislation has been compared to similar laws in Bulgaria and Russia.
The active discussions on banning the "LGBT propaganda" in Georgia's parliament began in 2023. Speaking to news media on 1 May 2023, Mamuka Mdinaradze, the leader of the Georgia's parliamentary majority, claimed that a survey by American research firm Gallup, which identified 20% of adult members of Generation Z in USA as LGBT, had demonstrated that 'LGBT propaganda' could 'dramatically increase' the number of representatives of the LGBT community. He said that a strict line must be drawn between "protection of LGBT rights" and "propaganda of LGBT". On 3 May, Fridon Injia, a member of pro-government European Socialists party, stated that he would draft the bill to outlaw the "LGBT propaganda", saying that the "LGBT propaganda destroys Georgia, the Georgian family, the state, it affects the demographic situation, it's unacceptable for the mentality of a Georgian man". On 4 May, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili for the first time took part in the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest, where he spoke of the importance of preserving "traditional values" and the inadmissibility of "violence by the minority against the majority" in a denunciation of "aggressive [LGBT] propaganda" as a tool to forcefully change the traditional values of the majority. Prime Minister elaborated that "the imposition of LGBT values is the violence of the minority over the majority" and also stated that "90 percent of Georgians share conservative views and family-based values", "Christian values", adding that both minority and majority should be protected. On 12 June 2024, the government introduced a draft law to ban the commercial surrogacy for foreign nationals, citing, among other reasons, concerns over child safety as foreign nationals often took children abroad and "sold them to same-sex couples".
On 15 June, the Georgian officials and the Georgian Orthodox Church condemned the "LGBT propaganda" in the McDonald's newly-distributed Happy Meals, which featured a book about the life of Elton John, including his gay marriage to David Furnish and their children from a surrogate mother. The book said: "[Elton] married to a spouse, David, and created a family with two sons". The Georgian Orthodox Church stated that the book aimed to instill "false values" into the children, while Mamuka Mdinaradze noted that "Getting used to this topic from a young age is harmful for the future generation... There is no need for a child to learn to defend LGBT rights at two, three, seven and ten years old, but this topic penetrates, and it's disgusting". Mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze denounced the book by calling it a "propaganda of filth".
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Georgian anti-LGBTQ law
The Georgian anti-LGBT propaganda law (Georgian: საქართველოს კანონი ლგბტ პროპაგანდის წინააღმდეგ, romanized: sakartvelos k'anoni lgbt' p'rop'agandis ts'inaaghmdeg), formally the Law on Family Values and Protection of Minors (Georgian: საქართველოს კანონი ოჯახური ღირებულებებისა და არასრულწლოვნების დაცვის შესახებ, romanized: sakartvelos k'anoni ojakhuri ghirebulebebisa da arasrults'lovnebis datsvis shesakheb), is a legislative package in Georgia that was passed with the third and final reading by the Parliament of Georgia on 17 September 2024 and was signed into effect on 3 October 2024. Its introduction was announced by the Chairman of Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili on 4 June. The package consists of the "core law", the Law on Family Values and Protection of Minors, and 18 amendments which modified various existing laws in Georgia, including the Civil Code, the Labor Code, the General Education Act etc.
The legislation was supported by the ruling Georgian Dream party, its ally People's Power, and the pro-government European Socialists party. The bill's voting was boycotted by opposition parties, except Girchi, which attended the session and criticized the bill. The opposition For Georgia party, while not attending the parliamentary discussion, still voiced partial support for the bill.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili refused to sign the bill, returning it to the Georgian Parliament, after which Chairman of Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili signed the bill into the law.
The bill was met by international condemnation from Western countries and organizations such as the EU and US. The EU described the bill as "harmful" and stated that it was considering stripping Georgians of visa free travel to the EU and freezing other agreements such as EU candidacy following the passage of the bill. While most of Georgians support the European integration, most Georgians at the same time have negative opinion on the LGBT movement and consider homosexuality to be unacceptable.
Following the EU, the US likewise sanctioned various members of the Georgian parliament following passage of the bill.
The legislation has been compared to similar laws in Bulgaria and Russia.
The active discussions on banning the "LGBT propaganda" in Georgia's parliament began in 2023. Speaking to news media on 1 May 2023, Mamuka Mdinaradze, the leader of the Georgia's parliamentary majority, claimed that a survey by American research firm Gallup, which identified 20% of adult members of Generation Z in USA as LGBT, had demonstrated that 'LGBT propaganda' could 'dramatically increase' the number of representatives of the LGBT community. He said that a strict line must be drawn between "protection of LGBT rights" and "propaganda of LGBT". On 3 May, Fridon Injia, a member of pro-government European Socialists party, stated that he would draft the bill to outlaw the "LGBT propaganda", saying that the "LGBT propaganda destroys Georgia, the Georgian family, the state, it affects the demographic situation, it's unacceptable for the mentality of a Georgian man". On 4 May, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili for the first time took part in the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest, where he spoke of the importance of preserving "traditional values" and the inadmissibility of "violence by the minority against the majority" in a denunciation of "aggressive [LGBT] propaganda" as a tool to forcefully change the traditional values of the majority. Prime Minister elaborated that "the imposition of LGBT values is the violence of the minority over the majority" and also stated that "90 percent of Georgians share conservative views and family-based values", "Christian values", adding that both minority and majority should be protected. On 12 June 2024, the government introduced a draft law to ban the commercial surrogacy for foreign nationals, citing, among other reasons, concerns over child safety as foreign nationals often took children abroad and "sold them to same-sex couples".
On 15 June, the Georgian officials and the Georgian Orthodox Church condemned the "LGBT propaganda" in the McDonald's newly-distributed Happy Meals, which featured a book about the life of Elton John, including his gay marriage to David Furnish and their children from a surrogate mother. The book said: "[Elton] married to a spouse, David, and created a family with two sons". The Georgian Orthodox Church stated that the book aimed to instill "false values" into the children, while Mamuka Mdinaradze noted that "Getting used to this topic from a young age is harmful for the future generation... There is no need for a child to learn to defend LGBT rights at two, three, seven and ten years old, but this topic penetrates, and it's disgusting". Mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze denounced the book by calling it a "propaganda of filth".