Israel Prents Itself As Haven For Gay Communy : NPR

Contents:

• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
• ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY
• MOSW GAY MAP

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

“The majory of the gay muny Israel is feelg very unsafe, ” said Hila Peer, the chairwoman of Aguda-The Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel. 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.

THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL

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.

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.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI

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. I thk we n all agree that homosexuals have been, and ntue to be, one of the most vulnerable groups any society. This is also nsired by most – pecially today’s youth – to be the fg civil rights issue of our time, so let’s take a look how both Israelis and Paltians treat the gay people their rpective societi.

ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY

“Tarek, a young Paltian gay man spected of homosexualy, was sentenced to a “retn” mp n by Mlim clerics unr Paltian Authory jurisdictn.

– Gay Paltian men are riskg their liv to cross to Israel, claimg they feel safer among Israelis than their own people.

– Gay Christian Paltian who fled the PA for Israel, criciz the opprsive Paltian society and says, ntrast, Israel allows gays the “eedom to exprs (their) sex and take pri ”. The are jt a few of the many stori we uld list here to highlight Paltian btaly toward homosexuals, however the most famo persecuted gay Paltian is for sure John Calv, who was raised a pro-Hamas fay the Wt Bank. In his recent blog post, he begs for asylum Canada as they prepare to port him back to the Paltian terrori, where is more than certa that he will suffer the same fate of so many other outed gays that me before him, and had the unlucky fortune to be born to one of the most sadistic societi the world when to their treatment of homosexuals.

MOSW GAY MAP

– Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Israel have generally been seen as some of the most advanced the Middle East and Asia. – Tel Aviv has equently been referred to by publishers as one of the most gay iendly ci the world, famo for s annual Pri Para and gay beach, earng the nickname “the gay pal of the Middle East” by Out magaze. And fally, if you need any further proof on Israelis’ views toward homosexualy, jt take a look at the two lovebirds:.

Actually, this is a staged photo, which mak even more ditive of the image Israeli society has of self when to homosexuals. That’s right, those mercils, child-killg, Paltian-blood-drkg soldiers you’ve heard about, went out of their way to support Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri week 2012, and did so by postg this photo on the ver of their Facebook page. It was staged bee the IDF Spokperson’s Office wanted to portray the most accurate picture of how the IDF views s homosexual soldiers: wh love and pri, as they do every other soldier.

(It also bears mentng that the picture is ditive of a culture wh the Israeli Defense Forc that the straight soldier feels fortable enough his masculy, and wh his fellow soldier’s homosexualy, to be seen such a public image holdg hands wh him.

So for those of you who know nothg at all about this nflict, and wish to be jt a ltle more rmed so you n start to form an opn, I ask you to nsir this one fact as Tel Aviv celebrat s annual Gay Pri Ftival this week:. Although Tel Aviv may be where all the actn is (as is the se wh most pursus Israel), ask any gay who liv here, or any gay who’s been here, and they will tell you that Israelis are the most open and welg society the world toward homosexuals. 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 Center serv as the epicenter of gay life for lol and visg LGBTQ+ dividuals to seek rourc and stay nnected wh the muny. 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. Elements of the g aln led by the prime mister-elect Benjam Netanyahu have not hidn the fact that they are hostile to Paltians and LGBTQ+ Maoz, the lear of the extremist relig natnalist party Noam that helped Netanyahu’s bloc w, has said queer people are a “threat to the fay”, and that the greatt achievement women n make is to marry and raise is expected to head a new “natnal Jewish inty” thory wh powers over some school activi, cludg mory rights and genr many leftwg voters, the rise of a homophobic and ultra-relig ernment was not a surprise after four years of polil chaos and succsive electns triggered by Netanyahu’s rptn trial.

Dpe ial aln negotiatn difficulti, is expected the new ernment will last a whole Rudner voted for the leftwg party Meretz, which failed to pass the electoral thrhold last month’s electn and is out of the Knset altogether, dilutg an already small leftwg 24-year-old tour gui, who intifi as gay, emigrated to Israel 2017 om the US and liv Jesalem. ”Wh the rollg back of gay adoptn and surrogacy laws on the new ernment’s legislative agenda, Rudner is worried about whether he will be able to have a fay.

Noam has lled for the ncellatn of Gay Pri Habashi, a transgenr Paltian cizen of Israel livg Jaffa, an Arab-majory area to Tel Aviv’s south, who works technology, said she found the polil suatn nfg. If we are gog to have a place for this type of talk public – transphobia and homophobia – will make a lot harr for me to live my life, and that’s sry, ” she said. Although Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri was celebrated nearly half a year ago, people are still hummg the ftival’s official theme song, which was prented by a young (and straight) sger, Omer Adam.