Some 20,000 people turned out for Jesalem's annual Gay Pri para, flanked by police officers after threats by some Jewish activists to dispt the celebratn.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH
- IN PICTUR: GAY PRI PARA JESALEM
- JESALEM IS PRECISELY THE PLACE FOR A GAY PRI PARA
- THOANDS TAKE PART JESALEM GAY PRI PARA
- THOANDS MARCH JESALEM'S GAY PRI PARA
GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH
Police bolstered on pal's streets for annual event; 2 teens taed for puttg up posters agast event; anti-gay Lehava group monstrat agast participants * jerusalem gay pride 2018 *
Police bolstered on pal’s streets for annual event; 2 teens taed for puttg up posters agast event; anti-gay Lehava group monstrat agast participants. Thoands of people take part the annual Gay Pri Para Jesalem, June 3, 2021.
The annual event is a highlight for the cy’s vibrant LGBT muny, which is often overshadowed by Tel Aviv’s gay-iendly persona and bet by relig and polil tensns ever-prent the pal. As thoands filled the pal’s streets, a small monstratn prottg the para was held by members of the far-right and anti-gay Lehava anizatn.
Right wg activists monstrate agast the annual Gay Pri para Jesalem, on June 3, 2021.
IN PICTUR: GAY PRI PARA JESALEM
Amid anger over gay parental surrogacy rights, natn-state law, large crowds gather the pal, wh many sayg they are marchg 'for those who still n't' * jerusalem gay pride 2018 *
People at the Gay Pri Para Jesalem on June 3, 2021, look at a photo of Shira Banki, murred by an ultra-Orthodox extremist at the march 2015. Participants attend the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para on Augt 2, 2018. Participants gather ahead of the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para on Augt 2, 2018.
The monstratn was highly polil, wh many atten prottg a recent law nyg gay upl the right to surrogacy.
JESALEM IS PRECISELY THE PLACE FOR A GAY PRI PARA
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A participant attends the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para on Augt 2, 2018. Jesalem’s gay pri para kicked off Thursday afternoon wh some 20, 000 Israelis floodg the streets of the pal, unr heavy police protectn. 2 e) march through the cy center me after a month of LGBT muny protts agast a surrogacy law passed last month that exclud gay men — and three years after a adly knife attack at the Jesalem march by an ultra-Orthodox zealot that killed 16-year-old marcher Shira Banki.
Participants Jesalem’s Gay Pri Para, Augt 2, 2018. Lehava activists claimed police officers “disguised themselv as gays” orr to filtrate their prott and ta one of their members. The event was held the shadow of wispread tratn over a recent law that bars gay men om surrogacy parenthood rights.
Participants marched while prottg and celebratg a return to the large-sle Pri events after two years of the fg featur of Jesalem’s gay pri para is the relig LGBTQ+ muny, which march while blastg Jewish relig mic and dancg like at any Jewish event.
THOANDS TAKE PART JESALEM GAY PRI PARA
Participants wave Israeli and LGBT pri rabow flags durg Jesalem’s annual Gay Pri para on Augt 2, 2018. This year’s Pri is believed to be one of the largt sce the event first took place 2002, but the celebratns are takg place the shadow of a new law that prohibs gay men om surrogacy parenthood rights.
The clse was proposed by MK Amir Ohana, an openly gay member of Netanyahu’s Likud party. Participants take part the annual Jesalem Gay Pri para on 2 Augt 2018 (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty). Followg wispread anger om the LGBT muny, the wife of the Israeli Prime Mister Sara Netanyahu fend her hband’s rerd on gay rights and sisted LGBT people have equaly Israel.
Its Gay Pri para is the biggt, most lorful celebratn of diversy, clivy and eedom, rivalg San Francis s own way. In a prelu the Jesalem Pri Para, enzied ath threats have been ma public, and aln members, even wh the Likud, have been quoted as sayg the Pri Para is an abomatn, or claimg that parents make their sons gay by givg them dolls to play wh. In the meantime, far-right MK Avi Maoz will have the thory to ensure LGBTQ young people, or straight on for that matter, never learn the facts (cludg the one that playg wh dolls do not make one gay) about sexual and genr inty.
THOANDS MARCH JESALEM'S GAY PRI PARA
Now the flamboyant, proud gays and their supporters will show the cy’s habants there is still a chance for to be a bean of human rights and equaly, rather than a bastn of homophobia, hatred and fear. The Pri Para is not about turng your sons and dghters gay.
And if there is vlence, the blame will lie squarely wh this ernment and those who have been fanng anti-gay, homophobic sentiments.
So let all pray for a peaceful Jesalem Gay Pri Para.