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• GAY DATG ISRAEL
• THERE'S NOW A JEWISH DATG APP THAT MATCH GAY MEN WH LBIAN WOMEN
• ISRAELI FOUNR OF GRDR TALKS ABOUT GROWG UP GAY AND COMG OUT TO HIS FAY
• SMALL UNTRY, PLENTY OF FISH - @WHECYBOY (S)EXPOS GAY ONLE DATG ISRAEL

GAY DATG ISRAEL

(JTA) — The mister holdg the untry’s purse strgs lls himself a “proud homophobe.

“The majory of the gay muny Israel is feelg very unsafe, ” said Hila Peer, the chairwoman of Aguda-The Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel. “You have at least an tentn to legislate laws that are dire for the gay muny.

Netanyahu and others his aln say they are mted to protectg gay rights, but the volatile polil suatn means the future is hard to predict. Israel is known as a gay haven the Middle East, and Tel Aviv is equently ced as one of the most gay-iendly ci the world, wh a Pri para that draws hundreds of thoands of revelers om Israel and abroad. A rarely enforced ban on homosexual relatns was taken off the books 1988, and the army began allowg openly gay service members 1993 — the same year the U.

THERE'S NOW A JEWISH DATG APP THAT MATCH GAY MEN WH LBIAN WOMEN

Armed forc adopted a policy permtg gay service members only if they remaed closeted. Dpe the legal protectns, LGBTQ Israelis have long faced opposn om wh the haredi Orthodox sector, where rabbis veigh agast homosexualy and policians have vowed to n the untry acrdg to Orthodox terpretatns of Jewish law. The Relig Znist Party, one of three the Relig Znist Bloc, is led by Bezalel Smotrich, who has lled himself a “proud homophobe” and has envisned Israel as a theocracy.

ISRAELI FOUNR OF GRDR TALKS ABOUT GROWG UP GAY AND COMG OUT TO HIS FAY

He lled the ia of lettg medil provirs ny re to LGBTQ patients “unacceptable” and has appoted a close ally who is gay, Amir Ohana, as Knset speaker. “A Sephardi or a tradnal Jew, do you thk he r about gays? “I’m a fascist homophobe, but I’m a man of my word, ” he said.

“I won’t stone gays. LGBTQ Israelis are playg a ccial role the mountg anti-ernment protts, activatg a work that put some 100, 000 people the streets 2018 after Netanyahu voted agast a bill to allow gay upl to e surrogacy.

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Last summer, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli man stabbed and killed several people at the Jesalem Gay Pri is now at the foreont of workg wh rabbis to negotiate relig laws surroundg LGBTQ inty and relatnships. " The document argu that ercg LGBTQ people to heterosexual marriag gras the act of marriage self and emphasiz the importance of acceptg queer people spirual believ 's the rponsibily of dividual spirual lears to explore how people of fah n honor relig law a lovg gay relatnship. "I don't see the Rabbate [official legal body of rabbis] or the Knset [Israeli parliament] changg or allowg gay marriage, " Yosef said.

Rearchers at Qgdao Universy have also timated that around 16 ln gay Che men were married to women, the Inpennt reported 2013.

Shanghai's biggt gay datg se,, even started s own marriage market 2010 bee of the high mand for the "sham marriag, " promptg the lnch of Che apps like Queers and iHomo to help LGBTQ Che people fd heterosexual marriage the Uned Stat, "sham marriag" are prevalent relig muni, though there's no reliable data to suggt how mon they are. Author Rick Clemons was married to a woman for 13 years before he me out as gay.