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28: 136:, 2019: "The visual side of Tbilisi Pride is also very telling. Its main symbol is a Kinto — low-class traders and entertainers in 19th-century Tbilisi whose culture gave rise to the traditional Georgian comic kintouri dance — with the rainbow flag. Kintos gained some media and queer attention recently due to research that claimed that homosexuality was common in their community and was tolerated by society. The author of the research, Shorena Gabunia, argues that this 'tolerance' is not difficult to explain: high-class society simply didn't care about the practices of excluded and marginalised people. Kintos were also often used as prostitutes." 17: 149: 81:
was common among the kinto community and tolerated by the mainstream society, which did not care about the lives of these marginalized peoples. The kinto thus became a symbol of the
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Dmitri Yermakov

Alexander Roinashvili
Georgian
Georgian
Tbilisi
Kintouri
homosexuality
Tbilisi Pride
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9780049560086
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Shorena Gabunia

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