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Saturday May 16, 2020
AUTHOR:
Erekle Vakhramovi
FACULTY: Dr. Islam, Maimuna
DEPARTMENT: English
This paper tackles the current state of sexual orientation- and gender identity-based violence and discrimination against Georgia’s (Qartveli) LGBTQIA+ community. Using creative nonfiction narrative, I have combined my personal experiences of targeted violence with interviews and case studies of bigotry against queer individuals, along with rising LGBTQIA+ activism. This paper also considers the legal and social factors that allow anti-gay bigotry to persist in this post-Soviet country with rising Russian influence. While I link the country's deep religious roots and the government's neglect of human rights justice to the trauma that individual LGBTQIA+ individuals experience, I also highlight the efforts of modern queer activists in changing the country's outlook on the community to show how they have been resisting institutionalized violence.
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