By Tornike Mandaria in Tbilisi As Georgia heads for parliamentary elections in October, with bread and butter issues topmost in voters’ minds, the government has announced a Russian-style plan to ban what it describes as LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’. Georgia, having just been granted candidate status for European Union membership in December 2023, is obligated to enhance standards of human rights protection before opening accession negotiations. The government, once celebrated for adopting an anti-discrimination law that brought the country closer to European integration, therefore now risks underminin…