Much of Israel’s L.G.B.T.Q. muny feels threatened by the right-wg ernment and s judicial overhl plan — even wh a gay speaker of Parliament.
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More than ever before, this year’s Jesalem gay pri para offered a stage for opponents of the current far-right/ultra-Orthodox aln and the judicial overhl advanced by the ernment. * gay parade 2022 jerusalem *
I was shocked to the pths of my soul by this wild cement, by the famatn agast the gay muny, the profani, and the ath threats, " said Knset speaker add that he me to the march to "stand up agast this evil spir and say clearly and unequivolly as the Speaker of the Knset that reprents the entire public Israel: LGBTQ people are equal cizens and serve full and equal rights. "Horowz poted to reforms ma surrogacy to allow same-sex upl and sgle fathers to have children through the procs, regulatns issued agast nversn therapy and the approval of allowg gay men to donate blood.
EventThe Jesalem Open Hoe for Pri and Tolerance has announced plans to hold a para June 2 support of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) rights. Gay pri stabber Yishai Schlissel is led out of the urtroom, at the Jesalem District Court on June 26, 2016, after beg sentenced to life prison and an addnal 31 years. JERUSALEM -- Thoands of people on Thursday marched Jesalem's Pri para — an annual event that took place for the first time unr Israel’s new far-right ernment, which is stacked wh openly homophobic march the nservative cy is always tense and tightly secured by police, and has been wracked by vlence the past.
Jesalem's march is typilly more subdued than the one gay-iendly Tel Aviv, where tens of thoands of revelers pour to the streets for a massive, multilored party. ”Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu's ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti who openly oppose homosexualy, although the Israeli lear has promised to protect LGBTQ+ rights and a member of his party who is gay is the Knset speaker.
Police bolstered on pal's streets for annual event; 2 teens taed for puttg up posters agast event; anti-gay Lehava group monstrat agast participants * gay parade 2022 jerusalem *
"There are people who are very much homophobic and very much transphobic who are the ernment today and hold posns of power and budget and are workg agast actually right now, ” she rried a flag that read: “There is no pri whout mocracy. At the para 2015, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli man stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to ath and wound several is generally tolerant toward the LGBTQ+ muny, a rary the nservative Middle East, where homosexualy is wily nsired taboo and is outlawed some plac. Members of the LGBTQ+ muny serve openly Israel’s ary and parliament, and many popular artists and entertaers are openly gay.
Jewish ultra-Orthodox parti, which wield signifint fluence over matters of relign and state, oppose homosexualy as a vlatn of relig law, as do other relig groups nservative make-up of Netanyahu's ernment sparked new fears the LGBTQ+ muny, which had seen gas unr the prev, short-lived admistratn led by Netanyahu's rivals. JERUSALEM — Jesalem’s 21st gay pri para, held Thursday wh some 30, 000 participants, was pecially polil this year wh lears of the opposn takg the stage to fend Israel’s mocratic para took place unr heavy societal tensns. Tragic memori of the 2015 murr of 16-year-old Shira Banki by an ultra-Orthodox zealot durg that year's gay pri march hovered over everythg.
Several policians intified wh homophobic and anti-gay stanc hold key posns the current ernment, makg this year’s para pecially tense. On the morng of the para, Jesalem’s Deputy Mayor Yosi Havil nducted six alternative weddg servic for members of the gay muny his municipal office. ”The history of Jesalem’s gay pri para shows that this nnot be taken for granted the cy that is home to hundreds of thoands of relig and ultra-Orthodox rints.
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Jesalem’s gay pri para was first lnched the summer of 2002, spe vocifero opposn om a cy uncil domated by ultra-Orthodox parti led by then Deputy Mayor Uri Lopoliansky.
While Amir Ohana of the Likud, an openly gay man who has children wh his partner, serv as speaker of the Knset, his senr posn was not mentned even once at the event. The sign to his right lls marchers 'sick perverts'Cred: Ts ScheflanAs past years, there have been real threats agast , most recently reported by the watchdog group Fake Reporter, which intified cement and vlent threats agast the marchers on social media, wh posts exprsg the wish that participants “die om gunfire” or get shot or group makg the threats is affiliated wh Lehava, which aniz a yearly unterprott agast the para which activists stand as close to the para as they are permted by police, shout slurs at the marchers and acce them of rptg children and filg opposn peaked 2005, when Smotrich, then a young right-wg activist, and Lehava-affiliated Ben-Gvir joed forc wh others to anize a "beast para" ahead of the event, placg farm animals along the route, orr to illtrate the parallel between homosexualy and btialy.