The DC Dyke March gay pri para has been cricized by Jewish and LGBTQ groups for banng Jewish and Israeli symbols.
Contents:
- GAY PRI FLAG FLI AT ISRAEL FOREIGN MISTRY
- FREAK FLAG: ISRAEL'S SECRET & SORDID GAY SPOTS
- GAY PRI FLAG HOISTED ABOVE US EMBASSY ISRAEL
GAY PRI FLAG FLI AT ISRAEL FOREIGN MISTRY
Relig opposn lawmaker reacts to gay pri flag angrily as "cheap provotn" that "damag the digny of Jesalem" * israel gay flag *
— יאיר לפיד - Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) June 21, 2021 Deputy Foreign Mister Idan Roll (Yh Atid), who is gay, said raisg the rabow flag was “important news domtilly and abroad. (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.
FREAK FLAG: ISRAEL'S SECRET & SORDID GAY SPOTS
Celebrate Pri week at Israel's hottt unrground gay snas, beach and more. * israel gay flag *
“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.
GAY PRI FLAG HOISTED ABOVE US EMBASSY ISRAEL
The US Embassy Tel Aviv has broken new ground and raised a few eyebrows flyg the rabow-loured gay flag alongsi the Stars and Strip at s beachont base a show of support for the cy’s week long Gay Pri week which culmat a major street para attend by tens of thoands of tourists and lols on Friday. * israel gay flag *
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? “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. June is “Gay Pri Month, ” and Israel is keen to promote self as a place of tolerance for the LGBT muny.