At Home Wh Eliad Cohen, Israel’s Top Gay In - Travel Israel

Contents:

• AT HOME WH ELIAD COHEN, ISRAEL’S TOP GAY IN
• GAY ISRAEL TRAVEL GUI
• ISRAEL ASANYA RPONDS TO A FAN WHO ASKED HIM – “WHY ARE YOU GAY”
• 2 MATCH FOR GAY ISRAEL
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL
• FOR ME, BEG GAY AND ZNIST ARE ONE AND THE SAME
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

AT HOME WH ELIAD COHEN, ISRAEL’S TOP GAY IN

The claim: Israel is the only untry the Middle East to regnize same-sex marriageAs Amerins celebrate the progrs ma for LGBTQ+ rights durg Pri month, a misleadg claim about gay rights Israel is circulatg onle. “Would like to extend a big thank you to all the untri the Middle East that support gay marriage, ” reads a June 2 tweet wh an image that claims Israel is the only untry the regn to regnize same-sex claim has spread different forms on check:No evince Tim Tebow is wearg No.

GAY ISRAEL TRAVEL GUI

Most Middle East untri do not regnize gay marriage at allIsrael’s regnn of same-sex marriag performed abroad distguish om other untri the regn. Consulate General of Israel Los Angel, accsed June 8, Israel Experience | Gay IsraelCouncil on Foreign Relatns, June 23, Same-Sex Marriage: Global ComparisonsBranni, accsed June 8, Middle EastThe Human Rights Campaign Foundatn, accsed June 8, Marriage Equaly Around the WorldHaaretz, June 21, 2020, Tel Aviv 'Challeng the Government' by Announcg Regnn of Civil PartnershipsThank you for supportg our journalism.

ISRAEL ASANYA RPONDS TO A FAN WHO ASKED HIM – “WHY ARE YOU GAY”

Cohen manag to stay relatively anonymo Tel Aviv, but Manhattan’s Chelsea or Madrid’s Chue neighborhoods, would be impossible to fd someone who did not know exactly who he was — the most famo gay Israeli in of recent years.

Tvada as Preventative for HIV Lol Gays Make the List The Ultimate Gui for Tel Aviv's Pri Week Ever sce he appeared three years ago on the ver of Spartac, the bible of gay tourism, Cohen has been a sought-after mol. He is also the owner of the PAPA party le that has been succsful dozens of ci all over the world, the -owner of Gay-ville, a gay vatn rental service, a star of gay-themed YouTube vios — and the fantasy of lns of men. ” Cohen is the extreme embodiment of the ntemporary Israeli gay man: He liv eely and openly, striv for succs and self-actualizatn and mak no apology for his masculy or days, Cohen is lnchg a llectn that bears his name wh the Atralian brand BCNÜ and an onle store wh PAPA merchandise.

2 MATCH FOR GAY ISRAEL

It was six years ago that they took a tra om Acre to Tel Aviv and arrived at Eva Bar, a proment gay bar the cy to this day. “In other ci there are gay neighborhoods, where the muny may be more visible. But parison, Tel Aviv s entirety is open to gays, ” he says.

He sat ont of Eliad as he ate and told him that he belonged to a secret relig gay muny Jesalem, which most of the members were married to women. 'Cred: CourtyThe poster of Eliad Cohen's Water Park party durg Tel Aviv gay pri Courty. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Gay Israel. While there are others who mock him, labelg him as gay.

Apparently, a fan asked Asanya, “Why are you gay” ‘The Last Stylebenr’ replied, showsg a vio and a nversatn wh someone on this veted topic about Asanya admted that he was a super gayADVERTISEMENTArticle ntu below this adThe vio Asanya‘s stat showsed a nversatn between two people, one of which was tryg to impose his opn on the other one. He qutned the other one, “Why are you gay? The other one replied, “Who says I’m gay?

But the first one overpowered the other, ncludg, “You are gay”’s reply was displayed right unr the vio, where he admted, “Super Gay”. The person wrote two texts, the first one read, “I don’t thk I know anyone gayer”.

THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL

A few prev acts om Asanya had placed him unr the spicn of fans who thought he was gay. A 2020 pic where ‘Izzy’ was spotted wh bright pk hair had spilled massive ntroversi over social media about him beg gay. (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.

FOR ME, BEG GAY AND ZNIST ARE ONE AND THE SAME

“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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

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.

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?

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

“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. Every June, the cy wel hundreds of thoands of ternatnal visors and revelers for Tel Aviv Gay Pri, an epic and unsurpassed daytime street party along the shor of the Mederranean Sea. The Tel Aviv Gay Center is a muny center loted the heart of Tel Aviv.

The Center serv as the epicenter of gay life for lol and visg LGBTQ+ dividuals to seek rourc and stay nnected wh the muny.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

For beach lovers, there are and of powry sand beach suated along the Mederranean Sea, yet one stands out as the unofficial gay beach of the cy: Hilton Beach (the beach ont of Tel Aviv’s Hilton Hotel) featur a seasi fé wh a full-service menu and endls hours of people-watchg. Also known as “the cy that never sleeps” there are a plethora of gay and lbian bars loted throughout Tel Aviv. In June, over half a ln visors attend the annual Tel Aviv Gay Pri.

Instead, chang the valu and polics of Israeli society over the past twenty years or so created the space which a gay and lbian muny uld first gay anizatn was tablished 1975, thanks largely to the work of immigrants om the Uned Stat and other English-speakg untri fluenced by the velopment of gay liberatn and the unterculture of the 1960s. The very name of this first anizatn, the Society for the Protectn of Personal Rights (then, as today, known as the Agudah, Hebrew), reflected the difficulty of anizg sexual mori at a time when the existence of a sodomy law was thought by many to make homosexualy self illegal.

But for many years, Israeli lbians funneled most of their energi to femism, rather than the stggle for gay and lbian velopment of a gay inty was difficult for many at a time when Israeli society was still the midst of s Znist revolutn. Pleadg more prsg issu, the public agenda did not clu the place of mizrahim (Jews who immigrated to Israel om the Arab untri) a society domated by European-born Jews, women’s liberatn, equaly for Paltian cizens of Israel, or gay rights. The certati of Znism gave way to a multu of polil and cultural inti: ultra-orthodox Judaism, growg assertn of a Paltian inty among Israel’s Arab cizens, natnalism, and yearngs for a more Wtern, liberal society peted for the allegiance of, gay inty and polics still did not go public.