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Overview. Georgian legislation has improved significantly since it joined the Council of Europe in 1999. In 2000, Georgia adopted a new Criminal Code that did no longer contain an article incriminating male homosexuality.
However, customs concerning marriage restrictions are relatively well preserved in people's memory. Different clans that do not marry each other were revealed by the ethnological research in historical-ethnographic region of Georgia-Samegrelo. Breaking marriage restriction by different socially related groups was strictly prohibited.
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The ruling coalition in Georgia introduced a bill on 14 March to amend the Constitution and define marriage explicitly as a union between a man and a woman. The amendment discriminates against LGBTI people in the enjoyment of their family life and all social rights associated with marriage.
On 25 December 2015, a Georgian man self-identifying as gay, filed a complaint to the Constitutional Court of Georgia, appealing to the Court to rule that his inability to marry his same-sex partner under the current legislative framework, namely the Civil Code of Georgia, was unconstitutional. The Georgian NGOs working on LGBTI rights
Georgia’s marriage rates are directly inverse to the presence and perception of same-sex relationships in the state. In 2010, the Williams Institute reported 5.9 same-sex couples per 1,000 total population living in Georgia.14 This statistic reflects 21,318 Georgia same-sex couples.15 Georgia
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGB- TI) persons represent one of the most marginalised, least visible and discriminated against groups in Armenia and Georgia.
