Soprano Tamar Iveri announced yesterday that she is planning a benefit concert in Tbilisi, Georgia dedicated to gays, lesbians and other sexual minorities. Iveri said that the concert is a way to apologize once more to LGBT people for a letter expressing homophobic sentiments that was posted to her Facebook page last year.
The concert, which Iveri said is "dedicated to the victims of all kinds of violence," will take place in Tbilisi on October 11, which is National Coming Out Day (NCOD). All money raised at the charity event will be used to assist victims of violence.
The letter in question was posted to Iveri's Facebook page on May 18, 2013, the day after Orthodox Christian groups violently assaulted participants in a gay pride march in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
The letter reportedly included the following statements: "I was quite proud of the fact how Georgian society spat at the parade" and "Please, stop vigorous attempts to bring the West's 'faecal masses' in the mentality of the people by means of propaganda."
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