LGBTQ civil rights demonstration 2013 Tbilisi Protests 2013-05-17T00:00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Tbilisi_anti-homophobia_rally_protests https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13362779 An anti-homophobic rally held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 17, 2013, the International Day Against Homophobia. Gay rights activists holding the rally were met by thousands of protestors opposing homosexuality, who were allowed to break through a police cordon and violently pursued them, beating and throwing stones at them. The rally, organized by Georgian LGBTQ-rights organization Identoba, was the first officially sanctioned anti-homophobic demonstration held in Georgia.