“There is a direct correlation between the use of hate speech in politics and hate crimes,” the Social Justice Center, a Tbilisi-based human rights group, said in its statement reacting to the murder.
“It has been almost a year that the Georgian Dream government has been aggressively using homo/bi/transphobic language and cultivating it with mass propaganda means,” it added.
Funny how Western media never mentioned this law was going through Georgia's parliament, yet they spent months talking about what they called the "Russian law".
it varies a lot. outside of the capital, it's almost entirely negative. inside Tbilisi, the youth (mostly female youth) tend to be more progressive when it comes to LGBT issues.