Living Out Loud

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 stateordered threats against LGBTQI individuals and activists At the same time the feminist and LGBTQI movements in Georgia are growing stronger and more organized In Living Out Loud we meet Eka Aghdgomelashvili a Georgian feminist activist and trailblazer who led successful efforts to pass antidiscrimination 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 International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia IDAHOT rally