Israel is the gayt untry on earth | Yoni Leviatan | The Blogs

Contents:

• 23 UPL ‘TIE THE KNOT’ AT STAGED MASS WEDDG TO ADVOTE FOR GAY RIGHTS
• ULTRA-ORTHODOX ISRAELI MP 'QUS' AMID GAY WEDDG CRICISM
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• GAY ISRAEL
• THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• TERROR, VLENCE AND CONSTANT HIDG: GAY LIFE TEL AVIV BEFORE IT BEME AN LGBTQ MEC
• ISRAELI POLICIAN SUGGTS DOCTORS ULD REFE TO TREAT GAY PATIENTS

23 UPL ‘TIE THE KNOT’ AT STAGED MASS WEDDG TO ADVOTE FOR GAY RIGHTS

O prefeo Ron Huldai foi bem an, ao jornal lol Haaretz, sobre o objetivo sua iciativa: "Para honrar a semana do ulho gay, tamos fazendo um saf ao erno do [pais]: renheçam a união [ psoas LGBTQ+] através uma simpl claração".

ULTRA-ORTHODOX ISRAELI MP 'QUS' AMID GAY WEDDG CRICISM

Hundreds of Israelis participated a mass weddg Tuday Tel Aviv to mand the right to same-sex marriage ahead of the untry’s Gay Pri week. The event volved an unofficial weddg ceremony for 23 gay upl, who walked down the aisle, took vows and danced at a banquet, cheered by iends, fay and supporters. The annual Tel Aviv pri para, set for June 14, draws flocks of foreign visors to the cy, which flnts self as one of the world’s most gay-iendly tourist statns.

Yet polil rights for Israel’s gay muny lag behd the creasgly wispread cultural acceptance. Gay upl prepare for a mass same-sex weddg Tel Aviv, Israel, June 4, 2019.

Jewish ultra-Orthodox parti, which wield signifint fluence Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu’s right-wg ernment and have a monopoly over matters of relign and state, have rejected legislatn that ndon homosexualy, which they see as fyg Jewish law. None of the relig bodi Israel regnize gay marriage, th same-sex upl nnot marry Israel.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

However, a same-sex uple who married a untry that do regnize gay marriage n be registered as married wh the Israeli Misrad Hapnim.

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.

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.

GAY ISRAEL

LGBTQ rights activists Israel are markg a tone of a rerd number of openly gay lawmakers currently servg the Knset. Wh the appotment of Blue and Whe party member Yorai Lahav-Hertzano last week, the Knset now has six openly gay MKs, reprentg 5 percent of parliament, the fourth-hight percentage the world, behd only Bra, Liechtenste and the Sttish parliament.

Pledgg to fight for same-sex marriage and LGBTQ surrogacy rights, 31-year-old Lahav-Hertzano said, “I’m gay and I’m proud of beg gay, and I’m very proud to be a gay lawmaker Israel. In the ntext of LGBTQ rights, pkwashg scrib a polil strategy of promotg gay-iendls orr to appear progrsive and tolerant.

THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR

This is the accatn that Israel hosts Pri paras and promot gay rights and culture only orr to distract om what some refer to as the occupatn of the Paltian people. Same-sex marriag are not performed Israel, leadg many gay upl who want to get married to do so outsi of the untry. Former Yh Atid party MK Aliza Lavie, who proposed a bill that would have stuted civil marriage (cludg gay marriage) Israel, told the Tim of Israel, “We have to allow a civil alternative for all of the upl [who] prefer not to go through the rabbate.

” Yisrael Beytenu MK Eli Avidar, who participated Jesalem’s Pri march last year, also supports civil marriage, as well as allowg gay upl to e a surrogate orr to have a child: “We don’t tell anyone what to do or how to live, ” he told Israel’s Channel 12 news. Uri Keidar, executive director of Israel Hofsheet (“Be Free Israel”), which promot relig pluralism Israel, has also been outspoken support of gay marriage Israel, tellg Ynews, “There is no other optn bis the immediate legislatn of a civil marriage law.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

On the other si of the cultural and relig divi, there are a range of views the Orthodox muny on homosexualy.

TERROR, VLENCE AND CONSTANT HIDG: GAY LIFE TEL AVIV BEFORE IT BEME AN LGBTQ MEC

” Siarly, Chief Rabbi of Jesalem, Aryeh Stern, wrote to Jesalem Mayor Moshe Leon to ask that he not allow the gay pri flags to wave throughout the cy. ” Recently, another ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi, Meir Mazuz, claimed that the spread of ronavis is dive retributn for gay pri paras. ” Although L do not endorse gay marriage, he is favor of formalized legal partnerships for same-sex upl, and has attend a gay weddg.

Rabbi Daniel Sperber told Haaretz that there is a “new nsens” emergg liberal Orthodoxy on the issue, cludg “a growg feelg that one has to…accept [gay and lbian people] as members of the muny and the synagogue. (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.

ISRAELI POLICIAN SUGGTS DOCTORS ULD REFE TO TREAT GAY PATIENTS

“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. 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.