Leaders of the American and Russian Christian-right are converging in Tbilisi, Georgia on May 15 to attend a four-day summit called the World Congress of Families, perhaps the world’s biggest anti-gay symposium. The event’s program includes titles like the global “Demographic Winter” and the “Sexual Revolution and Cultural Marxism.” The program also touts gala dinners, city tours and “magnificent” Georgian song and dance numbers and an award for George W. Bush.

The convention, timed to coincide with the day of a violent 2013 mob attack on an anti-homophobia rally in Tbilisi, will be hosted by Levan Vasadze, a dagger-sporting homophobic knight dressed in Georgian national attire. Vasadze participated and is alleged to have helped organize the 2013 attack that relegated Georgia’s nascent LGBTQ-rights movement to the periphery of national discourse.

Former President Bush, who will be given a nod at the convention with a “Family and Democracy Award,” was the first sitting US president to visit Georgia in 2005, when he described Georgia as a “beacon of liberty” in the region. While the country boasts many unprecedented freedoms in the region, the country severely suppresses its LGBTQ community.

To counter the symbolism of the May 17 anniversary of the mob attack on LGBTQ supporters as a day for celebrating gender and sexual diversity, Georgia’s Orthodox Church pronounced that date as the Day of Family. The Illinois-based World Family Congress subsequently announced its tenth annual conference would also coincide with the anniversary.