is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.
The bill was introduced by Georgia Dream, the longtime ruling party, which opponents have accused of steering the country toward Russia’s orbit despite popular sentiment for closer ties with Europe.Georgian far right supporters hold a banner reading, “No to LGBT darkness,” in front of parliament during a rally against Pride Week in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, File)
Georgian far right supporters hold a banner reading, “No to LGBT darkness,” in front of parliament during a rally against Pride Week in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, File)Georgian Dream was set up by Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire who made his fortune in Russia and served briefly as Georgia’s prime minister in 2012. It promised to restore civil rights and “reset” relations with Moscow, which fought a brief war with Georgia in 2008 over the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Russia then recognized the independence of South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian province, Abkhazia, and established military bases there.Russia has also severely curtailed LGBTQ+ rights in the last decade by banning public endorsement of “nontraditional sexual relations” and adopting laws against
, among other measures. Its Supreme Courtby labeling what authorities called the LGBTQ+ “movement” operating in Russia as an extremist organization and banning it.
The measure restricting LGBTQ+ rights in Georgia came shortly after the parliament adopted
that critics denounced as borrowed from Moscow’s playbook. The measure requires media and nongovernmental organizations to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.Such was their then-fame that the name of Bambi’s housemate, Coccinelle, became slang for “trans” in Israel — often cruelly.
Once Dietrich, the starry queer icon, arrived at the tiny Madame Arthur cabaret alongside‘s gay lover. “It was packed,” Bambi recalled. “Jean Marais instantly said, ‘Sit (me and Marlene) on stage’ And so they were seated onstage, legs crossed, champagne by their side, watching us perform.”
Another day, Dietrich swept in to a hair salon.“Marlene always had this distant, untouchable air — except when late for the hairdresser,” Bambi says, smiling. “She rushed in, kissed the hairdresser, settled beneath the dryer, stretched her long legs imperiously onto a stool, and lit a cigarette. Her gaunt pout as she smoked — I’ll never forget it,” she says, her impression exaggerated as she sucked in her cheeks. Perhaps Dietrich wasn’t her favorite star.