Oprah asks Shterna, Toby, Chaya and Brocha, four Hasidic women raisg 32 children between them, what would happen if a child were born gay. Fd out why they say this is a theoretil qutn.
Contents:
- THE GAY ORTHODOX UNRGROUND
- MY SECRET LIFE AS A GAY ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEW
- A YOUNG HASIDIC MAN LEADS A GAY DOUBLE LIFE BLACK HAT
- WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GAY TEEN IN A JEWISH ULTRA-ORTHODOX COMMUNY
- WHY DID NETFLIX CUT ‘I’M GAY’ FROM DOCUMENTARY ABOUT EX-HASIDS?
- MORN ORTHODOX JEWS ARE MOSTLY OBSERVANT, WEALTHY AND GAY-FRIENDLY
THE GAY ORTHODOX UNRGROUND
There is no official membership, and only a handful of people are willg to put their nam on support-group Ashkazy, a gay-rights activist and Orthodox Jew who liv New York Cy, says he has spoken wh over 200 gay Orthodox Jews over the past few years. Filmmaker Sandi DuBowski, who produced and directed Tremblg Before G-d, terviewed hundreds of gay um (observant) Jews over the past few years for his movie.
MY SECRET LIFE AS A GAY ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEW
Open and Secret Support Groups In the New York area, home to the largt ncentratn of gay Orthodox Jews, at least four support groups have spng up to meet their needs. ’" The three founrs of the Gay and Lbian Yhiva Day School Alumni Associatn chose that name specifilly to attract a gay group wh an Orthodox background.
The first Wt Coast support group was found Los Angel by "Jab, " a 54-year-old Orthodox gay Jew who had been married and livg a New York suburb until ten years ago, when he nfsed to his wife that he was gay.
A YOUNG HASIDIC MAN LEADS A GAY DOUBLE LIFE BLACK HAT
He started attendg an Orthodox synagogue, but was treated as a send-class member (he did not receive aliyot [he was not lled up to the Torah], for example) bee he was gay.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A GAY TEEN IN A JEWISH ULTRA-ORTHODOX COMMUNY
The issu for Orthodox lbians are different than for Orthodox gay men, part bee the Torah do not specifilly prohib lbian sex. For a long time, he says, "people uldn’t nceive that was possible to be gay and um, so they were leavg [Orthodoxy] drov.
"The Liv They LiveMany gay Orthodox Jews attempt to ignore their sexual impuls, perhaps even marryg and raisg fai.
And then there are those who lead fully gay liv, ignorg the halakhic [Jewish legal] ban on gay sex.
WHY DID NETFLIX CUT ‘I’M GAY’ FROM DOCUMENTARY ABOUT EX-HASIDS?
Richard Isay, a gay New York-based psychoanalyst, timat that 15 to 20 percent of gay men marry women–bee they want to ny or "cure" their gayns, or want children, or to please their parents. He adds that the Orthodox muny, the number of gay men marryg pursu of tradnal liv is much higher than the secular world. I was still at school when I first tried tellg a rabbi I was gay but all he said rponse was: "It's jt a phase, happens to a lot of girls.
MORN ORTHODOX JEWS ARE MOSTLY OBSERVANT, WEALTHY AND GAY-FRIENDLY
I thk he already knew I was gay but he'd nvced himself that was jt a latent sire rather than an tegral part of my inty.
But if beg Orthodox Jewish and gay was not patible then I don't thk that God would have ma me this way. So, Shmuel (Adam Silver) leads a double life -- prayg at the synagogue and managg a dry cleang bs by day, and then traversg gay bars by night -- at least while his wife and children are out of town.
Wrer, -producer, and gay Jewish man Phillip Guttmann explaed some of the challeng ultra-Orthodox Jews face.