Trailblazer or Turnat? The Gay Polician Dividg Israel's LGBTQ Communy - Israel News

Contents:

• THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• TRAILBLAZER OR TURNAT? THE GAY POLICIAN DIVIDG ISRAEL'S LGBTQ COMMUNY
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• GAY TEL AVIV FOR BEGNERS
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• GAY ISRAEL TRAVEL GUI
• THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL
• ISRAEL REACH RERD NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY LAWMAKERS 
• GAY DIRECTOR ADAM KALRON PICTS HOMOPHOBIA THE SWIMMG WORLD WH ‘THE SWIMMER’
• GAY PALTIAN AHMAD ABU MARHIA BEHEAD WT BANK
• ISRAELI POLICIAN SUGGTS DOCTORS ULD REFE TO TREAT GAY PATIENTS
• GAY PALTIANS ARE BEG BLACKMAILED INTO WORKG AS INFORMANTS
• AS A GAY ISRAELI, I CAN’T CELEBRATE NAFTALI BENT
• STEERG A PATH TO ACCEPTANCE FOR GAY ISRAELIS

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

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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Sign up for the daily Insi Washgton email for exclive US verage and analysis sent to your boxGet our ee Insi Washgton emailRepublins Congrs largely remaed silent and did not appld when Israeli Print Isaac Herzog mentned how Israel holds one of the largt gay pri paras Tel Aviv after givg him numero appls throughout his jot addrs to Congrs on Wednday.

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. 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. ” Acrdg to Ofer, Ohana is often cricized as “the sort who took advantage of the stggle of many gay people over the years and, now that ’s nvenient for him, is ready to shed his obligatns to keep the stggle movg and ready to abandon others wh the LGBTQ muny.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Muhammad Zoabi, a 24-year-old stunt and eelance wrer and speaker om Nazareth who now liv Tel Aviv, says is somethg he appreciat about the polician: “The fact that he says openly and clearly that the fact he’s gay is not somethg that dictat his entire life. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. If they are, they may simply jo you at your, whether you e to Tel Aviv for the gay nightlife, to lie on a gay beach, to experience gay pri, or jt to enjoy the pany of fellow gays, there is perhaps no better gay statn the Middle East and very few others the world.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Insir Tips – Gay Tel Aviv for BegnersBelow we offer some tips om the muny and equent visors to help you make the most of your time the Wood: “Tel Aviv is really an amazg place and a one of a kd LGBTQ muny bee you n walk around everywhere, be yourself 100% whout judgment, and feel accepted by everyone around you.

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.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

In 2017, anizers of the Chigo Dyke March kicked women out for rryg the Pri flag wh a Star of David, cg s remblance to the Israeli month, a soon-to-open gay bar Mneapolis beme embroiled the dispute when a journalist unearthed tweets by the bar's owner llg for the ath of all Israelis.

She asks why pro-Paltian queer people don’t specifilly nmn queer opprsn Palte, notg a report of Hamas executg a gay man Gaza by throwg him off a, the Washgton march anizer, said that discsn of nmng the reported Paltian btaly agast queer people did not e up planng meetgs for the march, which nsired self “fiercely” pro-Paltian. “Paltians al wh multiple systems of opprsn — om the occupatn to the patriarchy and homophobia, ” she, unlike many progrsive activists, she also cled to dismiss Pri events Israel, such as last week’s para Tel Aviv wh over 250, 000 participants, as "pkwashg, " or an attempt to distract om the occupatn of Paltians. A suggtn by one of Benjam Netanyahu’s g misters that Israeli doctors should be allowed to refe treatment to LGBTQ patients on relig grounds has heightened fears that the new ernment pos an unprecented threat to gay Israeli print, Isaac Herzog, has weighed to nmn the growg anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, sayg: “The racist pronouncements of recent days agast the LGBTQ muny and other sectors of the public make me extremely worried and ncerned.

Netanyahu – who lled Strook’s remarks “unacceptable” – ni his new ernment will pose a threat to gay rights but crics say he is too weak to ntrol his ultra natnalist and ultraorthodox aln partners phg Israel to creasgly adopt what they view as dively ordaed relig a rad terview on Sunday, the g natnal missns mister, Or Strook, of the Relig Znist party, was wily unrstood as implyg that Israeli doctors would be able to refe treatment to LGBTQ patients the spir of legislatn her party is draftg and acrdance wh aln agreements that provi for amendg an anti-discrimatn specified that a doctor uld refe re to a patient if dog so vlat his relig beliefs “as long as there are enough other doctors who n give this service” sharp cricism of her remarks, Strook, a lear of the illegal Israeli settler muny Hebron, later tweeted that she had been referrg to medil procr that would be religly objectnable, not LGBTQ dividuals. 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.

TRAILBLAZER OR TURNAT? THE GAY POLICIAN DIVIDG ISRAEL'S LGBTQ COMMUNY

‘The relig muny’s treatment of LGBTQ people is abhorrent’‘Ameri sent genr iology here’: Anti-Trans thor fds a few admirers IsraelIsrael’s liberal ci vow to keep homophobic lawmaker’s curricula out of their schoolsIn past years, the event always seemed to stop short of overtly polil statements.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

In recent months, PA forc have stggled for ntrol of ci, and 's that temperamental nature the Wt Bank that elics an environment where those on the social g are targeted for Paltian law don't crimalise homosexualy, is socially taboo to be openly gay. In many ways, this new ernment, while agile, is suggtg a radilly different approach to ernance om any other that preced gratu is mixed wh grief, though, as I image what exactly a Bent-led Mistry of Edutn would be dog to how official curricula addrs gay rights. G., [7, 8] recent s, a large body of rearch has been nducted on diverse LGBTQ parent fay forms, cludg lbian and gay stepfai formed post heterosexual relatnship dissolutn [9], lbian-parent fai through donor sematn [2], LGBTQ parent fai created by adoptn [10], shared parentg arrangements between gay and lbian dividuals [11], and gay men beg fathers through surrogacy [12].

We believe this is a very apt time to review the rearch on LGBTQ parent fai Israel bee of the recent Supreme Court lg July 2021 requirg a change all fns the current law that prevent the accs of gay men to surrogacy servic Israel wh six months [18].

The Soccultural Context of Israel and Its Relatn to LGBTQ Parent FaiThe soccultural ntext of Israel offers a unique settg for studyg LGBTQ parent fai as strongly promot the value of childbearg while simultaneoly placg numero legal obstacl the way of gay men who wish to bee parents.

GAY TEL AVIV FOR BEGNERS

In addn, all women Israel, whatever their maral or fay stat, are entled to extensive Health Matenance Organizatn (HMO) verage for practilly unlimed vro fertilizatn (IVF) cycl up to the age of 45 [21] the other hand, Israeli legislatn plac rtrictns on LGBTQ dividuals, and particular gay men who wish to bee parents.

Consequently, July 2021, the Supreme Court led that all fns the current law that prevent accs to surrogacy servic for gay men be changed wh six months [18] addrsg the challeng posed by the Israeli soccultural and legal ntext for LGBTQ dividuals, Orthodox Jewish law mt also be taken to nsiratn. In sum, is challengg to bee an LGBTQ parent this societal ntext of tradnal mascule rol, reliance of Jewish relign on the Biblil law that nigrat homosexualy, and legislatn that do not allow same-sex marriage the untry, and, until recently, rtricted accs to lol surrogacy servic [28, 34, 35, 36]. The search strategy that was ed our review aimed to lote the relevant studi, therefore we nducted search numero databas through October 2021, cludg PsycNET, Proqut, Ebs, Soclogil Abstracts, and Google Scholar, g several batns of keywords: “LGBTQ parents, ” “same-sex, ” “same-genr, ” “gay, ” “lbian, ” “queer, ” and “bisexual” together wh “fai, ” “parents, ” “fathers, ” “mothers, ” “parentg, ” “parenthood, ” “Israel, ” and “aspiratns, ” both English and Hebrew.

The thors suggt that this gap may be attributed to the Israeli ntext, wh the rults ditg tensn between the ternalizatn of domant faist and pronatalist valu on the one hand, which may expla the strong parenthood sir, and awarens of the multiple hurdl to gay parenthood Israel on the other, which may acunt for the low likelihood timatns [21, 38] studi explored the difference parenthood aspiratns between LGB and heterosexual childls dividuals.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

Lower parenthood aspiratns among LGB dividuals uld also stem om discrimatn and prejudice on the part of reproductive health profsnals [53], ternalizatn of homonegativy [47], stutnal discrimatn such as state bans on same-sex marriage and adoptn, and ntug mory social strs [8, 54]. Erez and Shenkman [59], for example, pared 90 Israeli gay fathers wh 90 dividually matched heterosexual participants and found that after ntrollg for soc-mographic differenc between the groups, gay fathers reported signifintly higher levels of SWB than heterosexual fathers.

In a study by Shenkman and Shmotk [62], 82 Israeli gay fathers who beme fathers, maly through surrogacy, were dividually matched wh 82 heterosexual fathers, and were pared on life meang and self-perceived parental role, that is, parents’ subjective asssments of their petence, vtment parenthood, and self-efficy. It was suggted that gay fathers, who were prevly a heterosexual relatnship and currently intify themselv as exclively gay, most likely had to overe numero hurdl as part of the multifaceted procs of g out to themselv, their spoe, and their children. Taken together, the fdgs suggt that succeedg beg a gay father Israel, which, as we have seen, is a faistic society that promot childrearg but also plac difficulti the path of gay men who wish to bee fathers, may lead to a stronger sense of meang life and SWB.

Another parative study employed a sample of 76 gay men who had bee fathers through a heterosexual relatnship, 63 gay men who had bee fathers through surrogacy, and 78 heterosexual fathers, examg psychologil well-beg as dited by life satisfactn, parenthood satisfactn, prsive symptoms, and the Big Five personaly dimensns [64]. Higher extraversn may imply the need to adopt active pg strategi when pesg surrogacy abroad [64] addn to quantative studi examg the posive psychologil out of SWB and growth among gay fathers, qualative studi have explored both the motivatns for choosg different rout to parenthood and the reproductive experience of gay fathers. Ltenberger strs that the abily to rec the necsary pal for lawyers and medil agents to rolve the burecratic problems dit the privileged stat of her sample and that whout accs to substantial fancial rourc, the pacy of gay men to bee parents is dramatilly curtailed.

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Another ntradictn refers to the dialectic between ntuy and change, as gay fathers nstct ”fay, ” which is the ma ditor of social cln, a way that obeys central pronatalist iology, while simultaneoly fyg the tradnal fn of fay as nsistg of a father and mother. The thors mata that gay fathers livg the periphery of the untry challenge the domant monolhic perceptn of this area as a loc of homophobia, th expandg the boundari of the “center” to clu “margalized” cultural enti, rol, and inti such as gay fatherhood. Taken together, the fdgs om the studi mirror the dualy of gay fathers’ parentg experience, which is mold by the heteronormative hegemonic disurse on parenthood, center, and periphery, while at the same time ntradictg s genred and bary a further qualative study, 60 -pth terviews were nducted wh Israeli gay men who beme fathers through a variety of means (adoptn, surrogacy, or -parentg as sgl, upl, or multi-parent fai) [71].

The thors suggt that Israel, a pronatalist society that embrac medilly assisted reproductn, surrogacy offers a new form of normative gay view of this unrstandg, 65 qualative -pth terviews were nducted wh self-intified LGB dividuals a stable relatnship.

Lbian women and gay men reported a lower timated likelihood of parenthood than their heterosexual unterparts, which was also associated wh adverse mental health out [46]; quantative sign, n = dividuals reported higher anticipatn of stigma upon parenthood than their heterosexual unterparts, which also mediated the associatn between belongg to a sexual mory and lower parenthood aspiratns [48]; quantative sign, n = parenthood aspiratns mediated the associatn between beg an LGB dividual and adverse mental health out [55]; quantative sign, n = participants om Israel and Portugal reported higher levels of parenthood sire, tent, and ncern about childlsns than participants om the Uned Kgdom [56]; quantative sign, n = 504. Gay fathers reported higher levels of subjective well-beg than heterosexual fathers [59]; quantative sign, n = fathers reported higher levels of subjective well-beg and life meang, as well as lower levels of prsn, than gay men who were not fathers [60]; quantative sign, n = gay fathers, but not among heterosexual fathers, higher self-perceived parental role was lked to higher life meang [62], and ls adverse mental health ditors of prsn, negative emotns, and nroticism [19]; quantative signs, n = 164 each study.

THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL

Moreover, personal growth and purpose life were higher among gay fathers than among gay men who were not fathers [63]; quantative sign, n = fathers through surrogacy reported greater satisfactn wh parenthood, greater satisfactn wh their liv, and higher levels of extraversn than heterosexual fathers [64]; quantative sign, n = motivatns for creatg a hetero-gay fay clud the belief blogil nnectn to the child, and the belief that the child’s bt terts dictate havg two different-sex parents [20]; qualative sign, n = 9.

Emotnal experience of pregnancy among gay men through surrogacy abroad clud tratn and ncern due to their distance om the pregnant woman [67]; qualative sign, n = 16, alongsi burecratic hardships volved transnatnal surrogacy [68]; qualative sign, n = parenthood unrm existg ncepts of parenthood, pecially the sentialist notn of motherhood as a social nstct [24]; qualative sign, n = fathers through surrogacy livg the periphery of the untry challenge the domant monolhic perceptn of this area as a loc of homophobia [70]; qualative sign, n = troductn of surrogacy as a medil optn that n be legally pursued overseas, shaped a new uple-based fatherhood script [71]; qualative sign, n = performance of circumcisn by a relig officiant (mohel) nvey the msage that lbian and gay parent fai are an thentic part of the Jewish-Israeli llective [72]; qualative sign, n = differenc were found between lbian and heterosexual mothers on psychologil distrs, well-beg, parental distrs, and social support [73]; quantative sign, n = 60. Lbian mothers reported on a specific strs related to a burn to prove to themselv and to heterosexual society that they are acplished and worthy mothers [76]; qualative sign, n = lbian and gay upl wh children, parent-child geic lks were gradually prrized when partners’ relatns worsened or post separatn [77]; qualative sign, n = 8. Policy makers should velop terventns aimed at rcg negative attus toward LGBTQ parenthoodPolicy makers should facilate LGBTQ dividuals’ accs to the diverse paths to parenthoodRearchers should take to nsiratn the soccultural ntexts when studyg LGBTQ parent fai and parenthood aspiratnsRearchers should also foc on the experienc of bisexual, pansexual, transgenr, and genr nonnformg parentsRearchers should promote more cross-natnal studi on LGBTQ parent faiRearchers should nduct more longudal studi and reports by multiple rmants, as such studi are lackg and are remendRearchers are enuraged to nduct studi on the fay procs and the adjtment of children raised gay and lbian parent fai Israel, as the are currently rareRearchers should further study the siari and differenc between the diverse fay nfiguratns that e unr the broad umbrella of LGBTQ parent faiRearchers should study the particular needs of LGBTQ parent fai om the health and mental health systems.

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In le wh the cross-cultural theoretil perspective [16, 79], our review suggts that the soccultural ntext of Israel, cludg s pronatalist and faistic orientatn, Orthodox Jewish law that disapprov homosexualy, and strong patriarchal norms, may play an important role shapg the experienc of LGBTQ parent fai.

This avenue of rearch n therefore be expected to flourish the review reveals that studi on LGBTQ parent fai Israel th far have only examed the experienc of cisgenr gay fathers and lbian mothers, as no vtigatns of bisexual, transgenr, or queer parents were found. Future rearch might relate to how gag (or not gag) marriage equaly affects LGBTQ parent fai, pecially regard to relatnship mment, divorce, and children’s relatnships wh their parents and other fay of the parative signs reviewed this paper nsisted of a parison between gay or lbian parents and heterosexual unterparts. Moreover, the pronatalist and faistic climate of Israeli society, succs beg a parent, pecially after ntendg wh difficulti, seems the ma road to social acceptance and a sense of triumph, which may expla many of the posive well-beg out that emerged among lbian and gay parents.

Our review also highlights the challeng lbian and gay parents may face Israel, such as the burn to prove to themselv and to society that they are acplished and worthy parents, the need to al wh overseas pregnanci, and to pe wh the dualy between social acceptance and subversn unr nservative genr and parental rol.

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