Pride, Georgian style: CIA-, UN-sponsored gender demolition event destroyed

Residents of Tbilisi, Georgia Saturday destroyed an event sponsored by the CIA and United Nations which was celebrating gender disorientation.

A festival organized by Tbilisi Pride was canceled Saturday after at least 2,000 Georgians reportedly stormed the area where the event was being held. Footage uploaded to social media shows protesters destroying rainbow flags and scuffling with police. News media, who blamed “Russian-affiliated far-right groups,” reported the protesters carrying Georgian flags and religious symbols.

Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili condemned the protest, as did the United Nations and the US Embassy, which denounced “the use or threat of violence and intimidation to silence differing views”.

Religious groups, including the Georgian Orthodox Church, have repeatedly called on political leaders in recent years to stop propagating gender ideology and forcing it into mainstream culture. In 2021, the Georgian Orthodox Church specifically asked the European Union and embassy heads in the country “to refrain from supporting and encouraging Tbilisi Pride” which was “propagating a non-traditional way of life under the guise of protecting human rights.”

But despite these requests, Tbilisi Pride has continued to schedule large “Pride” festivals, “Pride” film screenings, “Pride week” and demand that the Georgian government pass laws forcing citizens to respect gender disorientation. In spite of heavy opposition to authoritarian gender ideology by citizens and politicians alike, Tbilisi Pride has forged ahead with encouragement from the UN, EU and US.

As pointed out by reporter Ian Miles Cheong, Tbilisi Pride’s website lists the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Netherlands government and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as donors.

NED, described as a CIA front, receives around $100 million annually from Congress and has been shaping world events since the 1980s, though it vehemently denies being tied to the CIA. The organization is known for having funded rebel forces in Nicaragua during the eighties and having trained and funded protesters during the Arab Spring in 2011, among other regime changes around the world.

For nearly 40 years, NED was helmed by Carl Gershwin, a member of the Socialist Party of America who served as President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the UN Human Rights Security Council. In 2021, Gershwin stepped down as the organization’s president and was replaced by Damon Wilson, an intelligence operative from the National Security Council. For ten years prior, Wilson was also executive vice president of the Atlantic Council, a “think tank” which has been working closely with the State Department to fund censorship of undesirable political views in the US and Europe.

For the 2023–2024 fiscal year alone, Tbilisi Pride received over 233,550 Georgian Lari ($90,000)  from NED for “Supporting LGBTIQ Advocacy and Participation”. This is in addition to nearly $100,000 from the Netherlands government and nearly $80,000 from the UN, totaling nearly 700,650 Georgian Lari ($270,000) for the organization.

“Obviously, the US is now using them to foster regime change in Georgia, ostensibly to combat Russian influence--and they're doing so through wokeness/Pride,” says Cheong.