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• GAY DATG ISRAEL
• ISRAEL'S TOP GAY WEB SE CELEBRAT 10 YEARS OUT OF THE CLOSET
• GAY TEL AVIV FOR BEGNERS

GAY DATG ISRAEL

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Back 2014, Atraf was ranked #4 among “The 10 gayt thgs about Tel Aviv” by The Tim of Israel Volnic Iceland Epic Trip meet our Lol Insir Hanna HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? “A ltle more than three years ago, we moved here om Netanya, and we found a void wh regard to everythg nnected to the gay muny, ” says Ma’ayan Gilad, the LGBTQ muny ordator for Harish and the nearby town of Byama-Givat Ada.

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ISRAEL'S TOP GAY WEB SE CELEBRAT 10 YEARS OUT OF THE CLOSET

For many years, we didn’t manage to pass almost any legislatn, didn’t manage to make progrs on the natnal polil level, and we realized that the natnal learship wasn’t reflectg the posns that the Israeli public had regardg the gay muny. “In a lot of surveys, we have been seeg a posive public posn toward , like the matters of gay parentg and the fight agast LGBTQ-hatred, ” he ntu. We unrstood that was a pot that many stanc mobiliz the gay muny and begs to velop a lol activist muny that creat change.

GAY TEL AVIV FOR BEGNERS

Even municipal ernments that didn’t receive fundg om have referred to the event as an event of tolerance for the gay muny and have been fundg – such as Ramat Gan and Ra’anana. ” A racism-homophobia bo Atara Assi, 24, has lived Afula for five years. She arrived the cy as part of natnal service at the Israel Gay Youth anizatn, livg a mune wh a group of LGBTQ people and volunteered at a lol elementary school.

The cy is pable of cludg the gay muny. ” Sometim I found hard at jobs town, a racism-homophobia bo and such. “We’ve reached very homogeno muni, such as the settlement of Eat, ” says Cohen.

” Thoands of people marchg the cy of Haifa durg the Gay Pri Para on June 22, Rami Shllh‘The solutn to vlence is the tn of young people’ The rults of a survey of the needs of the LGBTQ muny Byama-Givat Ada were released this week.

Acrdg to Gilad, Byama-Givat Ada, like Harish, has a gay muny, but there was no agency to lk between people. The first is addrsed to the gay muny, askg for the gree of satisfactn they feel wh prent ndns and what they would like to receive as part of the servic provid to their muny. The story of the gay muny here began four years ago as a social activy, wh a place for people to meet, culmatg a Gay Pri event Sha’ar Hanegev last summer.

Harel Eliyahu Hershkovz“The uncil has grown a lot and has bee heterogeneo, and among the newers are gay fai.

Nearly every town or muny has at least one gay uple, if not more. We are marchg hand hand wh the lol muny orr to make progrs and provi better-sued servic, such as changg official forms so they clu ‘Parent 1, Parent 2, ’ postg Gay Pri signs at central tersectns the uncil’s jurisdictn and at the uncil buildg durg Gay Pri Month, urgg uncil lears to attend our events, and teachg all krgarten teachers the area about different typ of fai on the LGBTQ spectm. “I haven’t enuntered homophobia, but I also haven’t seen a same-sex uple walkg down the street holdg hands.

“Tel Aviv is very important for the gay muny, offers many opportuni and possibili, and most gay people see themselv growg and raisg fai the metropolan Tel Aviv area.

Attractg a specific part of the muny In south Tel Aviv’s Neve Sha’anan neighborhood, people are tryg to build an LGBTQ muny; more specifilly, a gay male one. Gadi Tun, who liv there wh his partner and their baby dghter, is one of the stigators of “New Sha’anan, ” an iative seekg to turn the neighborhood to Tel Aviv’s gay quarter.

“Our iative is tryg to nsolidate an already existg trend, formalizg the flow of gay people om the center to this neighborhood. I’m specifilly referrg to gay men, not members of the entire LGBTQ muny, sce ’s maly men who are movg , eher sgle or as upl. ” So you want a muny here based on gay men?

“It’s not that we only want gay men the neighborhood. That’s why we thk gay men uld be the vanguard, as happened San Francis, New York, London and Madrid, where they me to difficult neighborhoods, their prence improvg secury public spac. ” What about the claim that the arrival of well-off upl to the neighborhood – gay people this se – will ph people wh fewer means, such as transgenr people and other members of the muny, to prostutn?

” Are you worried that if the iative to brand the neighborhood as gay succeeds, weaker people will be phed out? A participant Mzpeh Ramon’s first Pri Ilan Assayag“I don’t thk the gay muny is of one stripe soc-enomic terms. “Unr the current velopment polici prevailg Israel, particularly Tel Aviv, affluent gay people displace weaker people om the cy.

As someone who’s studied this and still als wh the issue, as a gay person and a rint of Tel Aviv, I believe Neve Sha’anan should unrgo urban renewal and procs that will fix thgs. Israel's primary gay datg Web se will kick off s 10th anniversary celebratns on Friday, markg a revolutnary for the homosexual muny both onle and on the ground. Only 20 percent of the surfers on Atraf intify themselv as out of the closet gay men or lbians, though this figure is not entirely accurate or reprentative.