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Contents:
- A GAY CHABADNIK, LBIANS WEARG SKULLPS AND HIPSTERS WHO NEVER PRAY: WELE TO LGBTQ BIRTHRIGHT
- DOUBLE MZVA? BIRTHRIGHT’S GAY PARTICIPANTS EMBRACE JEWISH, QUEER INTI
- GAYS, LBIANS TAKE PRI THEIR OWN ISRAELI BIRTHRIGHT
- QUEERS THE HOLY LAND: CHOKG ON BLUE AND WHE GLTER ON GAY BIRTHRIGHT
- ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY
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. 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.
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 *
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. 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.
QUEERS THE HOLY LAND: CHOKG ON BLUE AND WHE GLTER ON GAY BIRTHRIGHT
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. The attacker, Yishai Schlissel, had been released om prison jt weeks before pletg a 12-year sentence for stabbg three dividuals at the Jesalem Gay Pri para 2005.
ISRAEL PRENTS ITSELF AS HAVEN FOR GAY COMMUNY
Amir Ohana, a gay Knset member om Netanyahu’s Likud Party, pared LGBT people to Jews who throughout history have been “hated for no reason, persecuted, discrimated agast and faced forced nversn.
In his 2, 000-word post, Moszon spoke on morn homophobia sports and stated that some of his fellow athlet have chosen suici over “g out of the closet. In July 2016, the cy of Beersheba’s first-ever gay pri march was nceled after the Israeli Supreme Court altered the route due to ncerns about vlence the area.