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. “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.
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 *
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.
LIFE FOR GAYS THE ISRAELI ARY JT GOT EASIER
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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.
GAYS THE ARMED FORC: ISRAELIS SAY ‘NO PROBLEM’
Male soldiers holdg hands IDF’s viral photograph are not a uple, only one is gay, and they both serve spokman’s un.