In Israel, the Knset has elected Amir Ohana as s first gay speaker as a number of anti-LGBTQ+ policians are ma bet members.
Contents:
- ISRAEL REACH RERD NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY LAWMAKERS
- LIKUD’S AMIR OHANA BE ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET SPEAKER
- ISRAEL SETS RERD FOR NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY MKS
- ISRAEL NAM FIRST GAY SPEAKER – BUT NEW ERNMENT CLUS ANTI-LGBTQ+ MISTERS
- NEW RERD GAY KNSET MEMBERS
- ISRAELIS POISED FOR THEIR GAYT PARLIAMENT YET
- ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY LIKUD LAWMAKER ON BEG A COALN WH ANTI-GAY PARTI
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
ISRAEL REACH RERD NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY LAWMAKERS
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Israel swore another openly gay lawmaker on Monday, markg a rerd for the untry nsired a regnal pneer on LGBT rights, spe opposn om relig nservativ.
LIKUD’S AMIR OHANA BE ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET SPEAKER
The Number of Gay Lawmakers Is Set to Double to at Least Four After April 9. Next Step: Electg Reprentativ From the Arab, Lbian and Transgenr Communi * gay members of the knesset *
Yorai Lahav-Hertzano om the opposn Yh Atid-Telem alliance beme the latt polician to jo the 120-seat Knset, brgg to six the number of openly gay lawmakers.
ISRAEL SETS RERD FOR NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY MKS
Five percent of Israeli lawmakers are now openly gay, the fourth-hight figure the world, acrdg to polil scientist Andrew Reynolds. Openly gay soldiers serve the ary, while Israel regniz same-sex marriag nducted abroad, and gay and lbian upl have surrogacy rights.
ISRAEL NAM FIRST GAY SPEAKER – BUT NEW ERNMENT CLUS ANTI-LGBTQ+ MISTERS
First openly gay mister. While Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri para ually draws huge crowds om around the world, the equivalent march nservative Jesalem is held unr a heavy police prence.
Participants the annual Jesalem Gay Pri para place flowers at a memorial for Shira Banki, who was murred durg the para 2015, on June 6, 2019. Annual Gay Pri events both ci have been nceled this month due to the ronavis panmic. The day before last year’s para, Netanyahu appoted Israel’s first openly gay mister.
Left-wg polician Itzik Shmuli, who is openly gay, also joed the ernment ranks, as mister for social affairs. They s alongsi Rafi Peretz, an Orthodox rabbi, who last year endorsed ntroversial therapy to nvert gay people to heterosexualy.
NEW RERD GAY KNSET MEMBERS
A former mister past ernments, Ohana is the Knset’s first openly gay person to hold the role.
Ohana has prevly served as jtice mister and public secury mister, wh his elevatn to the former post 2019 makg him Israel’s first openly gay mister.
ISRAELIS POISED FOR THEIR GAYT PARLIAMENT YET
Several of Likud’s far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners have exprsed homophobic posns, cludg returng now-banned nversn therapy, changg ernmental forms to say “mother” and “father” stead of the genr-ntral “parent, ” and nng on the platform of a “normal fay, ” the se of the openly anti-LGBTQ Noam party.
ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY LIKUD LAWMAKER ON BEG A COALN WH ANTI-GAY PARTI
Uned Torah Judaism MKs Yzhak Goldknopf and Meir Posh, a mister and puty mister, rpectively, the new ernment, avert their gaze as Amir Ohana MK, who is gay, mak his first speech as Knset speaker, December 29, 2022 (Screenshot om footage by Ari Kelman, BeHadrei Hadarim, broadst on Channel 12; ed acrdance wh clse 27a of the Copyright Law). Ahead of the vote for speaker, Maoz asserted that recent reports about his party drawg up lists of gay media profsnals and “leftist” Jtice Mistry staff were no more than an attempt by the media to “fame, monize and shame” him. REVELERS DIP the Mederranean Sea as they take part a Gay Pri para Tel Aviv last year.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
On Friday, Israel set the rerd for hight amount of openly gay MKs the 23rd Knset, wh six members of the LGBT muny, while the prev rerd was Secury Mister Amir Ohana set the rerd for beg the first gay mister Israel 2019 after he was appoted as the jtice mister by Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu.