Gays, lbians take pri their own Israeli birthright - The Jesalem Post

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Israel's ernment is backg a public-relatns mpaign stylg the untry as a haven for the gay muny. Israel offers many legal protectns to gays a regn that is typilly hostile to them. But activists say the progrs me spe of — not bee of — the ernment

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A GAY CHABADNIK, LBIANS WEARG SKULLPS AND HIPSTERS WHO NEVER PRAY: WELE TO LGBTQ BIRTHRIGHT

Alex Goldsmh shar his experience as a gay man on a Birthright Israel trip and how has impacted his life a later. * gay birthright israel *

Israel never prosecuted anyone unr the law agast sodomy sce the 1963 urt cisn; neverthels, s maximum penalty of 10 years prison created fear the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) muny. In 1998, the IDF ceased to lk sexual orientatn to secury clearanc and rcd a standg orr that required mandg officers to report gay soldiers for evaluatn. Steer had argued that the benefs are given to live- heterosexual partners and that, acrdg to the Danilowz precent, homosexual partners are equally entled to them.

DOUBLE MZVA? BIRTHRIGHT’S GAY PARTICIPANTS EMBRACE JEWISH, QUEER INTI

David Rak opens up about beg a gay man on Birthright Israel and how the trip spired his life s later. * gay birthright israel *

The Steer cisn was more far-reachg than the Danilowz lg, which alt wh a private ntract; gay rights activists expect the former to have ramifitns for the entire public sector.

GAYS, LBIANS TAKE PRI THEIR OWN ISRAELI BIRTHRIGHT

A new anized trip to Israel for young Jewish profsnals this summer aims to troduce participants to an Israel at the "foreont of gay rights." * gay birthright israel *

On the program, part of ETV’s Open Cards seri, homosexual teens and the mother of a homosexual boy told their stori to a teenage dience, followed by qutns and ments om the dience. In 1997, the Associatn for Civil Rights Israel (ACRI), joed by the Lbian Femist Communy and the Associatn for the Protectn of Individual Rights of Homosexuals, Lbians, and Bisexuals Israel, petned the High Court to overturn Hammer’s cisn.

QUEERS THE HOLY LAND: CHOKG ON BLUE AND WHE GLTER ON GAY BIRTHRIGHT

They asserted that one-third of teen suicis are related to homosexualy; the program was extremely important bee shows homosexual teenagers that they are not alone and giv heterosexual teens a better unrstandg of their homosexual peers. Israel was ranked the seventh happit place the world for gay men to live on the first-ever annual Gay Happs Inx 2015, which surveyed over 115, 000 gay men 127 untri.

ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY

The survey named Iceland as the untry which gay men feel most accepted and happit to live , followed by their Nordic neighbors Norway, Denmark, and Swen.

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