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LGBTQI rights in Georgia: How can a vulnerable but resilient movement overcome the powerful joint forces of church and state?

While officially a secular nation, church and state are far from separate in Georgia, where homophobia is common. The Christian Orthodox Church holds great power including among government officials, resulting in homophobic and transphobic violence and discrimination throughout the country, hate crimes and murders, and state-ordered threats against LGBTQI individuals and activists.

At the same time, the feminist and LGBTQI movements in Georgia are growing stronger and more organized. In Fundamental Episode 3: “Living Out Loud,” we meet Eka Aghdgomelashvili, a Georgian feminist activist and trailblazer who led successful efforts to pass anti-discrimination laws in this former Soviet state. We also meet a young artist Eka Tkemeladze and fellow community activists who are mobilizing in the tense days leading up to the IDAHOT (International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia) rally.

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At a time of unprecedented political uprisings around the globe, from Haiti to Chile to Hong Kong to Sudan to Lebanon and beyond, Fundamental invites global audiences to engage directly with grassroots movements and community leaders who are standing up for our fundamental human rights.

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0:00 Intro
0:45 LGBTQIA & Georgia
2:10 Gender Rights
4:31 Planning A Rally
7:57 Motivations
9:40 Finding Help
10:52 A Potential Massacre
13:33 Fighting For Their Lives
Transcript
00:04People expect me to stay at home, to be nice, to give up my space. Freedom is a sense of
00:11autonomy, but I do come from a very patriarchal world. They see my differences first. It was
00:17difficult to not have to be seen as a man or a woman. I don't want to apologize for being
00:23angry
00:23anymore. Does that make sense? I'm not afraid to say that I do believe in something great.
00:30And I'm not going to give up. Fundamental. Again, they're justice. No exceptions.
00:55Georgian Orthodox Church is a major opinion maker. And very unfortunately, the majority
01:02of Georgians also share their idea about LGBTQI, considering them sinful or clinically ill.
01:11Georgian Orthodox Church has been openly attacking LGBTQI people. If we remember May 17th in 2013.
01:31The LGBT community was really much a target of this violence. Police couldn't really keep
01:38and contain these counter-demonstrance. We just got lucky that nobody really died.
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02:32Thank you very much.
03:03So this was a story, and there were many many times.
03:10I was at the time I was in the sunshine.
03:11I was very busy.
03:14And I was in the middle of my life,
03:17I was at the time of my school and I was in the middle of my life.
03:20It was the time I had to leave the country.
03:22I had to leave the country and I had to leave the country.
03:31It was a very nice man who was bullied at this time.
03:39That's why this slogan said,
03:40The LBT is called the LBT is called the LBT.
03:42I wanted to say that a single one was to say.
03:45In the same time,
03:46in the same time,
03:48the LBT is called the LBT is called the LBT.
03:54and was able to leave people.
03:57And they wanted to come back to their community.
04:06They wanted to come back to their community and to take care of their lives.
04:07Because of that, when they were very beautiful,
04:07they needed to be a bisexual,
04:08to have a socialization.
04:13So they needed to have a good place,
04:16and they needed to be a good place.
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04:54and then if we get to call it.
04:56We have registered parents.
04:57We have a popular load system,
05:01and we have to go check them out.
05:04We have a very good day, Ebony.
05:06He hasn't been around to check out it.
05:08We don't know how, if the whole thing is working.
05:12That doesn't look like they were supposed to get to kill us
05:15and they don't have to transport the mobile.
05:17¡Aquí se usó a 15 años.
05:20¡Aquí se usó a 15 años!
05:23¡Aquí se usó a 15 años!
05:24¡Garante! ¿Qué es la vida?
05:26¡Presión de las personas en que se nos sentía a dar un saludo!
05:30No hay problema para que la gente nos quiera haciendo.
05:34¡No hay que perderla a vivir de la vida!
05:53It was a very difficult time for me, but I didn't know what to do with my father.
05:59It was a very difficult time for me.
06:04You know, it's a little more, but that would be a basic
06:16I met this I ask she got home in don't under the chain
06:22No, it's to stop should be commercial
06:30I mean, you shouldn't have been a couple years ago.
06:35I mean, you shouldn't have thought of it?
06:39You should not have thought about it.
06:43You know, the situation in my Şahawi is another one,
06:49I used to live the whole country.
06:52I used to live the whole country.
07:02I used to live in November for the first time.
07:08I used to live in the 18th century as a group of people.
07:13This is what I think it is,
07:15to say the LGBTQ level is subject to the NAF.
07:26I was about to say,
07:28I will be at a time,
07:30because I will survive in my life.
07:42I was a girl girl, and she was a heterosexual person.
07:46I was a girl girl, and she was a girl girl.
07:48I was a girl girl, and I was a girl girl.
07:54I had a lot of time, and I was going to work in a way, and I was going to
08:14work in a way,
08:15and I was going to work in a way.
08:17and we'll be able to get out of it.
08:26We are not able to get out of it.
08:29We shouldn't have been able to get out of it.
08:33We are not able to get out of it.
08:39I had to do the research in it,
08:42and I had to have the first time
08:44to have a lot of people who were in peace.
08:50I had to do the same work.
08:53I had to do it with the people who were in the middle of the city.
08:56I had to do it with the community.
08:59I had to do it with the other way.
09:05I had to do it with the other way.
09:14I'm not the only one I can do it.
09:20So, you'd like to have some of the dance moves from the side.
09:26The first line is on the side of the side with the top.
09:28We'll talk to you soon.
09:40I didn't have a problem with them.
09:46I'm surprised whether I write books like this.
09:48It's not just a time-esque thing.
09:51I didn't have a good idea of writing up.
09:52It's a time-esque thing.
09:56This was by the time I had a big deal.
09:58I agree with him.
09:59And I'll be on a positive note,
10:04I'll be on a positive note.
10:05I'll be on a positive note to my friends.
10:09I'll be on a positive note,
10:10and I'll be on a positive note to my friends.
10:13I will move on a positive note.
10:14I'm very comfortable,
10:19but I'm not .
10:36Why she was white?
10:39He was white.
10:40It was black.
10:42He was white.
10:43She's white.
11:01I'm going to work hard but, I don't believe it.
11:04I don't believe it's a member.
11:05I can't believe that if I'm a pastor
11:09I'd rather bring more people to one person.
11:12I am very proud of you.
11:14I think I should be a friend.
11:15I think you're my guy he is a guy.
11:16I think he's my wife.
11:17I think he gets a man.
11:22He's a man.
11:29It was a real thing to say to me.
11:34It was a real thing. It was a real thing.
11:36It was a real thing to say.
11:58I think we can have a lot of time,
12:01so we can have a lot of time,
12:03and we can have a lot of time.
12:06We can have a lot of time.
12:31...
12:33...
12:34With a lot of people together with these names,
12:36it is also a definition that is very country.
12:42Everyone is the first country of the country,
12:47and the other is the first country of the country,
12:49and the other is the fourth country of the country,
12:51and the second country is the limited part.
12:55His family, his friends,
12:57I like the country of the country and I would say,
13:00I went, and I've got theán, cyan, I have no idea.
13:04I got an dung, I had a dinner with me,
13:08and I had to keep it there.
13:09Well, you're not going to.
13:10It's not that much.
13:11But after all, I got fired at 3611.
13:14It's not fair to just go to the council.
13:16I have been walking for this time.
13:19I was playing against a lot of good rules.
13:21You're not saying anything,
13:22they didn't come from the first place of Shidobuyan city.
13:38Try.
13:42Try.
13:47Try.
13:49Try.
13:50Try.
13:59Try.
14:01Try.
14:10Try.
14:26And I will be able to pay for the rest of the children.
14:31I will be able to accept the banks,
14:33and I will be able to accept the rest of the kids.
14:36I will be able to accept the entire community members of the family.
14:39I will be able to accept the future of the children.
14:39I will be able to go to the family and get back on the children's school.
14:44The whole world was always in the world.
14:46It was a great work of the queen of the queen.
14:49And it was like a queen of the queen of the queen.
14:52So she was still here.
14:56And she had to go to the queen.
15:01Her wife, she was here.
15:06She was here.
15:07That was...
15:08That was not her.
15:10Okay.
15:11It's not her.
15:11Not her.
15:12She was here.
15:12But I would like to thank you for the support of the people of the country.
15:44We have a great country that could've been out.
15:49We need to have a role for a few weeks.
15:55We have a great country in this country.
16:01We have a good country on our own.
16:06We have a good country in our village.
16:08We have a good country.
16:10I love you.
16:48Some of the problems that Kenyan women face
16:51are issues to do with how much secrecy we treat our sexuality.
16:56It's very empowering when a girl understands her body.
17:00Those who hold cultures so much and they don't want to change with the changes
17:05will always underrate women.
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