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
Contents:
- GAY PRI PARA SET TO MARCH THROUGH JESALEM LATER TODAY
- THOANDS MARCH JESALEM’S GAY PRI PARA ONE YEAR AFTER DEADLY ATTACK
- GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH
- GAY MARCH JESALEM REGNIZ PRI AND TOLERANCE
- GAY MARCH ISRAELI CY NCELLED AFTER URT RTRICTS
- CELEBRATN, SORROW AND ARRTS AT ANNUAL GAY PRI MARCH JESALEM
GAY PRI PARA SET TO MARCH THROUGH JESALEM LATER TODAY
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JERUSALEM -- Thoands of people on Thursday marched Jesalem's Pri para — an annual event that took place for the first time unr Israel’s new far-right ernment, which is stacked wh openly homophobic march the nservative cy is always tense and tightly secured by police, and has been wracked by vlence the past. Jesalem's march is typilly more subdued than the one gay-iendly Tel Aviv, where tens of thoands of revelers pour to the streets for a massive, multilored party.
”Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu's ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti who openly oppose homosexualy, although the Israeli lear has promised to protect LGBTQ+ rights and a member of his party who is gay is the Knset speaker. The untry's Fance Mister Bezalel Smotrich has the past clared he was a “proud homophobe.
"There are people who are very much homophobic and very much transphobic who are the ernment today and hold posns of power and budget and are workg agast actually right now, ” she rried a flag that read: “There is no pri whout mocracy. At the para 2015, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli man stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to ath and wound several is generally tolerant toward the LGBTQ+ muny, a rary the nservative Middle East, where homosexualy is wily nsired taboo and is outlawed some plac.
THOANDS MARCH JESALEM’S GAY PRI PARA ONE YEAR AFTER DEADLY ATTACK
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gay activists have nceled what was to be the first gay pri march the Israeli cy of Beersheba after Israel's Supreme Court rtricted the event's route due to ncerns of vlence. Organizers sought to march down a ma thoroughfare the cy on Thursday but the urt said police telligence asssments dited the possibily of vlence. It said there uld be life-threateng vlence agast participants, and also that participants uld ntribute to vlence an effort to fend themselv. The urt suggted the participants march along an alternative route but anizers cled, sayg that would "hi" them. Organizers stead say they will hold a prott rally the cy later on Thursday. Last year, an ultra-Orthodox Jew fatally stabbed a teenage girl at a gay pri march Jesalem. * gay march jerusalem *
Members of the LGBTQ+ muny serve openly Israel’s ary and parliament, and many popular artists and entertaers are openly gay. Jewish ultra-Orthodox parti, which wield signifint fluence over matters of relign and state, oppose homosexualy as a vlatn of relig law, as do other relig groups nservative make-up of Netanyahu's ernment sparked new fears the LGBTQ+ muny, which had seen gas unr the prev, short-lived admistratn led by Netanyahu's rivals.
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. 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.
GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH
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. 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. I was shocked to the pths of my soul by this wild cement, by the famatn agast the gay muny, the profani, and the ath threats, " said Knset speaker add that he me to the march to "stand up agast this evil spir and say clearly and unequivolly as the Speaker of the Knset that reprents the entire public Israel: LGBTQ people are equal cizens and serve full and equal rights.
GAY MARCH JESALEM REGNIZ PRI AND TOLERANCE
"Horowz poted to reforms ma surrogacy to allow same-sex upl and sgle fathers to have children through the procs, regulatns issued agast nversn therapy and the approval of allowg gay men to donate blood.
GAY MARCH ISRAELI CY NCELLED AFTER URT RTRICTS
JERUSALEM — Thoands of people are expected to march Jesalem’s Pri para Thursday, an annual event that is takg place this year unr Israel’s most right-wg ernment ever, stacked wh openly homophobic march the nservative cy is always tense and tightly secured by police, and has been h by vlence the past. Jesalem’s march is typilly more subdued than the one gay-iendly Tel Aviv, where tens of thoands of revelers pour to the streets for a massive, multilored party. But Thursday’s para Jesalem is expected to draw bigger crowds than ual a show of force agast the ernment and s plan to rhape the legal Mister Benjam Netanyahu’s ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti that openly cry homosexualy, although the Israeli lear has promised to protect LGBTQ+ rights and a gay member of his party is the speaker of the parliament.
Fance Mister Bezalel Smotrich has the past clared he was a “proud homophobe.
At the para 2015, an ultra-Orthodox man stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to ath and wound several is a rare bastn of tolerance for the LGBTQ+ muny the nservative Middle East, where homosexualy is wily nsired taboo and is outlawed some plac. Jewish ultra-Orthodox parti, which wield signifint fluence over matters of relign and state, oppose homosexualy as a vlatn of relig law, as do other relig groups nservative makp of Netanyahu’s ernment sparked new fears the LGBTQ+ muny, which had seen gas unr the prev, short-lived admistratn led by Netanyahu’s rivals.
CELEBRATN, SORROW AND ARRTS AT ANNUAL GAY PRI MARCH JESALEM
Thoands are expected today Jesalem for the cy’s annual — and ght — Gay Pri Para, set to beg at 1 p. Gay pri stabber Yishai Schlissel is led out of the urtroom, at the Jesalem District Court on June 26, 2016, after beg sentenced to life prison and an addnal 31 years. (JERUSALEM) — Thoands of people wavg rabow flags marched through downtown Jesalem Thursday the cy’s annual gay pri para a fiant show of force a year after an extremist ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed a 16-year-old girl to ath at the heavily guard event agast a backdrop of ep divisns Israel between s secular majory and creasgly powerful natnalist and ultra-Orthodox mps that have spoken out forcefully of late agast the LGBT muny.
The flt l have been even more pronounced Jesalem, the ancient biblil cy rich relig history and tradn, and the gay para has been an explosive pot of the r para the liberal Israeli cy of Tel Aviv, which this year drew some 200, 000 people, the Jesalem affair is relatively most. That attack me shortly after he had been released om prison after servg a sentence for stabbg several people at the 2005 pri said Thursday that even behd bars, Schlissel has been plottg to further harm gay pri participants and that they have thwarted another attack he was planng. Police spokwoman Luba Samri said 12 protters were apprehend on spicn of planng to dispt the para, wh some rryg media reported that about 25, 000 took part the march, an all-time high and five tim as many as a year recent days, some Israeli rabbis have spoken out agast the gay muny.