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Contents:

• MIZRAHI, GAY AND PROUD – THE TEAM BEHD ISRAEL'S PK PANTHERS’ REVOLUTN
• THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR
• ISRAEL'S GAY SCENE THRIV UNEXPECTED PLAC
• BT GAY BARS TEL AVIV
• GAY TEL AVIV FOR BEGNERS
• TEL AVIV GAY SNAS
• SARAYA SNA- TEMPORARILY CLOSEDHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASMASSAGETOURSGAY BEACHSHOPSCY GUIGAY MAPSHOW MORESARAYA SNA- TEMPORARILY CLOSED

MIZRAHI, GAY AND PROUD – THE TEAM BEHD ISRAEL'S PK PANTHERS’ REVOLUTN

Dj Aron, Israeli born is one of the biggt and top dj producers and has been headlg for the biggt LGBT gay events the world cludg the Uned Stat, Europe, Canada, South Ameri, Asia and Israel. 'Wng Eurovisn wh Dana Internatnal was a tremendo victory for everyone – over the relig, over the rad, over the straights, even over the gay muny that until then didn’t even fe self as cludg transgenr people. 'Israel’s Eurovisn Song Contt Entry: Vol Looper Out, Gal Gadot In Beg Gay Gaza: Meetg Israelis on Datg Apps and Evadg Hamas Psy Rt to Perform Tel Aviv May There was no mistakg his sexual inty.

THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR

“There wasn’t a [sgle] moment of g out of the closet, ” relat Shimon Shirazi, a well-known gay parti producer and an old iend of Nissim’s. ”As though beg born homosexual wasn’t hard enough, Nissim also ignored the dichotomy between masculy and femy, an attu that s day was prehensible. “He was always a lorful, showy gay, when he wasn’t even out of the closet, ” says Shirazi.

Together wh Shirazi, he is rponsible for a wispread and amg phenomenon Hebrew culture: “Ohtcha” language, the slang and tonatn ially intified wh effemate gayns that is now also mon among ’s mil reer started at the Theater Club, on Tel Aviv’s Menle Street, an unrground space lan wh mirrors. “That was the unrground, ” says Shirazi, “bee the gay scene at that time was very borg, exactly the oppose of today. ” He spun them the Brish synthpop duo Soft Cell and OMD’s “Enola Gay, ” and om then on they were his.

ISRAEL'S GAY SCENE THRIV UNEXPECTED PLAC

From s unrground anonymy the 1980s, this group would sprg forth to lead the gay muny to the heights has reached that perd, Nissim disvered that the producer’s chair was more fortable.

At the same time, the untry’s gay “parliament, ” key people the mic dtry, led up behd rt is history: Israel won Eurovisn for the first time sce 1979. Says Shirazi: “It was a tremendo victory for everyone – over the relig, over the rad, over the straights, even over the gay muny that until then didn’t even fe self as cludg transgenr people. There are many versns about what transpired the nference rooms of the rerd pany, and claims of homophobia on the part of pany reprentativ and a refal to grant artistic eedom to the two of them – but no one disput the assumptn that Dana and Nissim had simply overreached themselv.

Nissim admired Rhofer, a DJ and producer who had been one of the founrs of gay club scene New York. He was ved to more and more parti and gay pri paras around the world. Gays and lbians and transgenr fans on towerg heels jumped over them to fe their way to the buildg bee, “Oa has already e on.

BT GAY BARS TEL AVIV

Wh a rincy at the Forever club Tel Aviv and ever-creasg dat as the DJ for worldwi gay paras, Offer Nissim and his spicy electronic mic have had no shortage of work. Begng his reer by throwg parti for iends his parents’ garage when he was 14, Aber has veloped to a DJ wunrkd, performg at ma attractns like The Love Para, Gay Para, and Dance & Levis. It’s hard to exaggerate the succs of Arisa, whose Middle Eastern-themed gay parti began five and a half years ago Tel Aviv.

GAY TEL AVIV FOR BEGNERS

You’ll fd about 1, 500 people at the rto monthly events – a mix mostly of transgenr people, gays and lbians, but also heterosexuals. Revelers dance wh ntag joy smoke-filled clubs, to the sound of roarg Mizrahi mic, sgg along to every 's Gay Scene Beyond Tel Aviv Pretty Men and the Shutterbug Who Lik Them But the succs of Arisa n’t measured only by mand for s parti. Its activi crossed the boundari of the nightlife and gay experience long ago and turned to a genue phenomenon.

TEL AVIV GAY SNAS

The latter, which Tobi and Pappo worked on wh songwrer Doron Medalie, beme the official anthem of Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri Para 2013 and was one of the top hs of that year. Its party vios went viral, succs seems surprisg on two levels: First, bee cross boundari between what is still nsired the ge and the mastream; and send – and even more surprisg – has fed a nnectn between Mizrahi mic and the gay scene. But this nnectn did more than jt boost Mizrahi culture; also created a means of exprsn for a group that had hherto fallen between the cracks – the gay Oi Ilany, a historian om Ben-Gurn Universy of the Negev, Be’er Sheva (and Haaretz ntributor), labels the velopment as nothg short of a cultural revolutn.

The more that LGBT rights have strengthened the iology of Wtern, liberal mocraci – to be precise, the Uned Stat and Europe – the more homosexualy Israel has bee intified wh Ashkenazim, Tel Aviv and left wgers. If five years ago was difficult to image this nnectn, even though there were some Mizrahi gays the public nscns, that is no longer the se today. In other words, the current suatn – which the Wt is, so to speak, gay-iendly and the East is homophobic – is relatively new.

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”“Even if sounds pretent, ” he says, “I n fely say that until Arisa arrived, the character of gay parti and nightlife was very specific. It appeared that Tel Aviv had a monopoly on shapg homosexual inty. It forced you to unrgo this kd of membership procs orr to be the ial gay who danc to electronic mic.