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Contents:

• GAY TEL AVIV FOR BEGNERS
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL
• BEG GAY ISRAEL: A BLSG AND A BURN
• GAY ISRAEL

GAY TEL AVIV FOR BEGNERS

The claim: Israel is the only untry the Middle East to regnize same-sex marriageAs Amerins celebrate the progrs ma for LGBTQ+ rights durg Pri month, a misleadg claim about gay rights Israel is circulatg onle. “Would like to extend a big thank you to all the untri the Middle East that support gay marriage, ” reads a June 2 tweet wh an image that claims Israel is the only untry the regn to regnize same-sex claim has spread different forms on check:No evince Tim Tebow is wearg No.

Consulate General of Israel Los Angel, accsed June 8, Israel Experience | Gay IsraelCouncil on Foreign Relatns, June 23, Same-Sex Marriage: Global ComparisonsBranni, accsed June 8, Middle EastThe Human Rights Campaign Foundatn, accsed June 8, Marriage Equaly Around the WorldHaaretz, June 21, 2020, Tel Aviv 'Challeng the Government' by Announcg Regnn of Civil PartnershipsThank you for supportg our journalism. Instead, chang the valu and polics of Israeli society over the past twenty years or so created the space which a gay and lbian muny uld first gay anizatn was tablished 1975, thanks largely to the work of immigrants om the Uned Stat and other English-speakg untri fluenced by the velopment of gay liberatn and the unterculture of the 1960s.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

The very name of this first anizatn, the Society for the Protectn of Personal Rights (then, as today, known as the Agudah, Hebrew), reflected the difficulty of anizg sexual mori at a time when the existence of a sodomy law was thought by many to make homosexualy self illegal. But for many years, Israeli lbians funneled most of their energi to femism, rather than the stggle for gay and lbian velopment of a gay inty was difficult for many at a time when Israeli society was still the midst of s Znist revolutn. Pleadg more prsg issu, the public agenda did not clu the place of mizrahim (Jews who immigrated to Israel om the Arab untri) a society domated by European-born Jews, women’s liberatn, equaly for Paltian cizens of Israel, or gay rights.

The certati of Znism gave way to a multu of polil and cultural inti: ultra-orthodox Judaism, growg assertn of a Paltian inty among Israel’s Arab cizens, natnalism, and yearngs for a more Wtern, liberal society peted for the allegiance of, gay inty and polics still did not go public.

THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL

By 1992, lbian and gay activists had succeed gettg the Knset to amend Israel’s Equal Workplace Opportuni Law to outlaw discrimatn on the basis of sexual 1993, the Israeli ary rcd s few regulatns discrimatg agast gays and lbians. And 1994, the Israeli Supreme Court orred El Al Israel Airl to grant a ee plane ticket to the partner of a gay flight attendant, as the airle had long done for heterosexual partners of then, there has been steady progrs, pecially the urts.

Chief among them was the fact that gay activists pursued a very mastream strategy, seekg to nvce the wir public that gay Israelis were good patrtic cizens who jt happened to be attracted to the same strategy, pursued until recently, rerced the perceptn that gay rights was a non-partisan issue, unnnected to the major fissure Israeli polics, the Arab-Israeli nflict and how to rolve . Th, the opposn of relig parti to gay rights has engenred the oppose reactn among non-relig Revolutn BegsThe mastream path started to grate on some gay and lbian Israelis the late 1990s. Prevly, the Israeli gay movement had shunned transgenred people, fearg what their cln would do to s public image, but wh Dana receivg ngratulatory telegrams om the Prime Mister and beg ma an honorary ambassador by the Knset, was now “safe” for the movement to expand s November of that year, Michal En won a seat the Tel Aviv Cy Council, beg Israel’s first openly lbian elected official.

The Israeli LGBT movement has not embraced femism ( fact, sexism and tensns between gay men and lbians are both que prevalent), and until recently, the place of gay Arabs the muny was neglected, reflectg the wir society’s difference to Israel’s Arab mory (some 20 percent of Israel’s populatn). Agast the backdrop of clash between Israel and the Paltian Authory, the 2001 Tel Aviv’s Pri Para, typilly a celebratory, hedonistic affair, got a dose of polics when a ntgent lled “Gays Black” marched wh a banner proclaimg, “There’s No Pri In Occupatn.

BEG GAY ISRAEL: A BLSG AND A BURN

” A group lled “Kvisa Sh’hora” (Dirty Lndry) also spng up, lkg the opprsn of sexual mori to what se as the Israeli opprsn of the PriThe holdg of World Pri Jesalem Augt 2006 highlights the succs and challeng of Israel’s gay and lbian muny. The succs are many: 1) the growth of viable muni outsi of Tel Aviv, symbolized by the Jesalem muny’s hostg of World Pri, an ternatnal gay pri event; ntued legal succs, pecially wh rpect to uple’s rights; and broad cultural visibily. But before the para had to be ncelled bee of regnal tensns, was shapg up as a stggle between Israel’s relig tablishment and the gay and lbian Jesalem municipaly and a verable alliance of relig lears uned only their opposn to homosexualy were termed to thwart the holdg of the para.

They claimed that homosexualy so ntradicted the teachgs of all three of the monotheistic fahs that a para for acceptance and equaly of the GLBT muny would forever sta the holy cy. Even many secular Israelis normally supportive of the Israeli GLBT muny viewed holdg an ternatnal gay pri para Jesalem as an unnecsary provotn, showg jt how succsful Israel’s relig tablishment has been shapg a gree of obedience to s sensivi. Israel is known as a gay haven the Middle East, and Tel Aviv is equently ced as one of the most gay-iendly ci the world, wh a Pri para that draws hundreds of thoands of revelers om Israel and abroad.

GAY ISRAEL

Dpe the legal protectns, LGBTQ Israelis have long faced opposn om wh the haredi Orthodox sector, where rabbis veigh agast homosexualy and policians have vowed to n the untry acrdg to Orthodox terpretatns of Jewish law. LGBTQ Israelis are playg a ccial role the mountg anti-ernment protts, activatg a work that put some 100, 000 people the streets 2018 after Netanyahu voted agast a bill to allow gay upl to e surrogacy. So should e as no surprise that Israel’s pal of ol, Tel Aviv, where 25% of the populatn is timated to be LGBT, has gaed an ternatnal reputatn as one of the world’s top statns for gay men.

One reason gay nightlife Tel Aviv is so excg is that the Tel Aviv gay scene revolv around weekly parti, rather than specific bars or clubs like most ci around the isn’t to say that certa gay bars Tel Aviv aren’t extremely popular.