Georgia’s president sends anti-LGBTQ+ bill back to parliament – but it could still become law

Georgia’s president Salome Zourabichvili has sent the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill back to parliament rather than signing it – but it could still become law.

On Wednesday (2 October), Zourabichvili returned the LGBT Propaganda bill to parliament following it being passed by lawmakers on 17 September. 

Despite Zourabichvili’s failure to sign the bill means the parliamentary speaker now has five days to sign it into law. 

The bill, introduced by the ruling party Georgian Dream, would give authorities the legal right to ban Pride events and flags. It also seeks to ban gender-affirming care, LGBTQ+ people’s right to adopt and nullify same-sex marriages performed on Georgian territory.

It mirrors Russia’s so-called LGBT ‘propaganda’ law, adopted more than a decade ago, which bans public displays of LGBTQ+ flags or identities, as well

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