LGBT Rights Israel: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
Contents:
- ARMY’S ‘GAY SOLDIERS’ PHOTO WAS STAGED, IS MISLEADG
- IDF GAY SOLDIERS
- LIFE FOR GAYS THE ISRAELI ARY JT GOT EASIER
- GAYS THE ARMED FORC: ISRAELIS SAY ‘NO PROBLEM’
ARMY’S ‘GAY SOLDIERS’ PHOTO WAS STAGED, IS MISLEADG
Male soldiers holdg hands IDF's viral photograph are not a uple, only one is gay, and they both serve spokman's un * gay armee israel *
(JTA) — The mister holdg the untry’s purse strgs lls himself a “proud homophobe.
IDF GAY SOLDIERS
Elements of Netanyahu-led aln have been openly hostile and rollg back of some gay laws is on agenda * gay armee israel *
“The majory of the gay muny Israel is feelg very unsafe, ” said Hila Peer, the chairwoman of Aguda-The Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel. “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.
LIFE FOR GAYS THE ISRAELI ARY JT GOT EASIER
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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.
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.
GAYS THE ARMED FORC: ISRAELIS SAY ‘NO PROBLEM’
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.