Mayhem at Georgian Pride festival
An LGBT festival in the country of Georgia was swarmed last weekend by hundreds of anti-LGBT protesters who looted the bar, vandalized the stage, and set fires at the event.

One official said that the peaceful participants of the festival were safely evacuated, while police on the scene struggled to hold back what the country's media estimated was about 5,000 counterprotesters.

"The protesters managed to find... ways to enter the area of the event, but we were able to evacuate the Pride participants and organizers," said Deputy Chief Interior Minister Alexander Darakhveldze. "Nobody was harmed during the incident, and the police are now taking measures to stabilize the situation."

The event organizers said the police could have done more to prevent the disruption. "The police did not block the access road to the festival site in order to prevent an aggressive group. The police did not use proportional force against the attackers."

Some involved went so far as to accuse the police of collusion.

"I definitely think this [disruption] was a preplanned, coordinated action between the government and the radical groups," said Mariam Kvaratskhelia. "We think this operation was planned in order to sabotage the [European Union] candidacy of Georgia."

Trans woman sues Japanese ministry
Japan's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday this week that the Economy and Trade Ministry's restrictions on a Trans woman's use of restrooms at her workplace were illegal and "extremely inappropriate," after the employee was forced to either use the men's room or the women's restrooms two or more floors away.

The plaintiff, a ministry official in her fifties, said after her victory that "all people should have the right to live their lives in a society based on their own sexual identities. The significance of that should not be reduced to the usage of toilets or public baths."

"Even if awareness is lacking among the public, the administrative branch must promote understanding and prohibit discrimination," said the plaintiff's lawyer, Toshimasa Yamashita. "The government must now deal with the workplace environment more appropriately to protect the rights of minorities."

Japan remains the only member of the Group of Seven industrialized nationals where same-sex marriage isn't legal. Still, just last month, its parliament did advance a lukewarm law to promote awareness of sexual minorities without providing them legal rights, and a court in Fukuoka ruled that the lack of legal protections for LGBTQ+ people is unconstitutional.