Shorena Gabunia - Heinrich Böll Foundation, [1], 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."
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Shorena Gabunia - Heinrich Böll Foundation, [1], 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."
