Israelis and visors celebrate eedom and tolerance at 20th annual event self-styled 'most gay-iendly cy' world
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OVER 250,000 REVELERS FLOOD TEL AVIV FOR ISRAEL’S BIGGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
The plan has torn open longstandg societal divisns between those who want to prerve Israel’s liberal valu and those who seek to shift toward more relig Mister Benjam Netanyahu’s ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti whose lears openly oppose homosexualy. Netanyahu himself has vowed to protect LGBTQ+ rights, and Parliament Speaker Amir Ohana, a member of his party, is openly Aviv has brand self a gay-iendly statn, and thoands of tourists flew for Thursday’s Quidort, of Chigo, said he had e for an entire week of Pri-related activi.
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TEL AVIV GAY PRI
“In the Knset and the ernment, there are people who are not ashamed to say transphobic and homophobic thgs and to try and legimize our existence, ” he said, reference to some far-right, ultra-Orthodox and even Likud policians who have recently exprsed anti-LGBTQ sentiments. Ripped men whe unrwear, pk bunny ears and black bow ti gyrated through the streets of Israel’s Tel Aviv on Friday along wh drag queens and others to loud trance mic for the annual Gay Pri Para — the biggt event of s kd the regn. The Tel Aviv Municipaly said over 250, 000 people celebrated at the cy’s 20th Gay Pri Para, an event that draws people om around the world to party at the Israeli beach cy that has built an image of an oasis of tolerance for the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny.