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When many people thk of Israel, is often terms of morn war or ancient relign. But there is much more to the Jewish state than missil and prayers. In his but as a documentary filmmaker, adult-film entreprenr and polil lumnist Michael Lus exam a si of Israel that is too often overlooked: s thrivg gay muny. Undrsg Israel featur terviews wh a diverse range of lol men, cludg a gay member of Israel's parliament, a traer who served openly the army, a young Arab-Israeli journalist, and a pair of dads raisg their kids. Lus also viss Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife scene and a same-sex weddg this guid tour to a untry that emerged as a pneer for gay tegratn and equaly.

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

The Wild Life of Jonathan Agassi Includ Starrg Amerin Gay-porn Movi, Workg as an Esrt Berl and Usg Hard Dgs Every Day. Now His Life Story Is Exposed a Shockg New Film * israel gay men *

Anyone who’s read a scriptn of the movie, which follows a the life of Israeli gay-porn star Jonathan Agassi, but who expects some refement or ncealment, will be disappoted. Up Close and Personal Wh an Israeli Gay Porn Star How to Film Sex Scen the Era of MeToo “The movie isn’t difficult for me, I don’t watch and experience anew the difficult perd I went through. While filmg was still unrway, even before Men of Israel beme one of the most profable gay-porn featur, he was signed on for two more porn producer and fervent Znist Michael Lus, who employed Agassi pornographic REUTERSThat’s when the name "Jonathan Agassi" was born, an alter ego that he scrib the current movie as a superhero, a character who helps him, who's always on his si.

”There is also the story of the gay muny and what the movie says about , and the rpons, harsh at tim, people have after seeg the movie. Over 500 gay Jews (and those who love them) partied the night away at Serlic, the Passover Party, prented by saw Pharoah and Mos rne and drk MAN-ischewz all night long on Saturday at New York's Hudson Terrace.

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. 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.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

Over 500 gay Jews (and those who love them) partied and chugged Manischewz at Serlic, the Passover Party, prented by Hebro. * israel gay men *

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.

AT HOME WH ELIAD COHEN, ISRAEL’S TOP GAY IN

Israeli Beefke Eliad Cohen Tak a Break From Partyg Shirtls Around the World to Talk About Growg Up Gay Israel. * israel gay men *

So fell on non-gay supporters of gay rights to move thgs the late 1980’s, the efforts began to pay off, layg a road map for future gay polil succs. This pattern of dog thgs quietly, even unr the table, would repeat next few years marked the goln age of gay polil succs Israel.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI

A Bar Wh a Weekly Gay Night, but No Coupl Kissg on the Dance Floor; a Heartwarmg Enunter by the Poolsi but a Disturbg Male Prostutn Indtry: Imprsns From a Short Vis to the Emirate * israel gay men *

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. Mastream SuccsThe reasons for gay and lbian polil succs durg this perd om 1988 through the mid-1990s were many.

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 . Embracg gay rights enabled Israelis to pat themselv on the back for beg open-md, even as Israeli society wrtled ls succsfully wh other social equali.

Another reason for succs was that the only source of real opposn to gay rights Israel stems om the untry’s relig parti. 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.

ISRAEL REACH RERD NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY LAWMAKERS 

Five percent of Israeli lawmakers are now openly gay, the fourth-hight figure the world, acrdg to polil scientist Andrew Reynolds * israel gay men *

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. In such a polil environment, gays and lbians uld have their own elected polil voice as well, although such reprentatn do not yet exist at the natnal level. 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.

” 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.

ISRAELI MEN BARE THEIR SOULS—AND THEIR BODI—IN LATT ISSUE OF GAY TRAVEL MAGAZE"JEWS WERE SPREADG THE WORD TO ARAB IENDS, ARABS WERE TRODUCG TO THEIR RSIAN IENDS." 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JEWS WERE SPREADG THE WORD TO THEIR ARAB IENDS, ARABS WERE TRODUCG TO THEIR RSIAN IENDS, AND EVERYONE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SHOW THE MULTICULTURALISM THAT THE PEOPLE OF HAIFA ARE SO PROUD OF."LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT'S NOT TO SUGGT THE MAGAZE WHEWASH ISSU FACED BY DIFFERENT MUNI, CLUDG RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND RELIG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THERE ARE NATURALLY SIGNS THAT LIFE IS NOT PERFECT," CAMPBELL SAYS. "HOWEVER, HAIFA SEEMS TO SET A BETTER EXAMPLE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE ISRAEL OF HOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIVE TOGETHER, NOT JT BY TOLERATG EACH OTHER BUT BY LOVG EACH OTHER. THE MEN YOU MEET ELSKA HAIFA DO SHOW SOME OF THEIR PA, BUT THEY SHARE THEIR HOPE, AS WELL."LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELSKA'S HAIFA ISSUE IS AVAILABLE A 164-PAGE PRT VERSN OR FOR DOWNLOAD. A PANN E-ZE, ELSKA EKSTRA HAIFA , OFFERS OUTTAK, BEHD-THE-SCEN TAL AND MORE PROFIL.LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Lbian & gay bars and events Israel: Time Out offers Israel’s bt gui to gay clubs, gay bars and LGBT events throughout Tel Aviv and beyond * israel gay men *

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. I thk we n all agree that homosexuals have been, and ntue to be, one of the most vulnerable groups any society.

UNDRSG ISRAEL: GAY MEN THE PROMISED LAND

We take a look at the celebrated gay scene Israel wh an eclectic variety of some of the most ntroversial and celebrated LGBT films wrten directed... * israel gay men *

This is also nsired by most – pecially today’s youth – to be the fg civil rights issue of our time, so let’s take a look how both Israelis and Paltians treat the gay people their rpective societi. “Tarek, a young Paltian gay man spected of homosexualy, was sentenced to a “retn” mp n by Mlim clerics unr Paltian Authory jurisdictn. – Gay Paltian men are riskg their liv to cross to Israel, claimg they feel safer among Israelis than their own people.

– Gay Christian Paltian who fled the PA for Israel, criciz the opprsive Paltian society and says, ntrast, Israel allows gays the “eedom to exprs (their) sex and take pri ”. The are jt a few of the many stori we uld list here to highlight Paltian btaly toward homosexuals, however the most famo persecuted gay Paltian is for sure John Calv, who was raised a pro-Hamas fay the Wt Bank. In his recent blog post, he begs for asylum Canada as they prepare to port him back to the Paltian terrori, where is more than certa that he will suffer the same fate of so many other outed gays that me before him, and had the unlucky fortune to be born to one of the most sadistic societi the world when to their treatment of homosexuals.

– Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Israel have generally been seen as some of the most advanced the Middle East and Asia. – Tel Aviv has equently been referred to by publishers as one of the most gay iendly ci the world, famo for s annual Pri Para and gay beach, earng the nickname “the gay pal of the Middle East” by Out magaze. And fally, if you need any further proof on Israelis’ views toward homosexualy, jt take a look at the two lovebirds:.

THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL

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Actually, this is a staged photo, which mak even more ditive of the image Israeli society has of self when to homosexuals. That’s right, those mercils, child-killg, Paltian-blood-drkg soldiers you’ve heard about, went out of their way to support Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri week 2012, and did so by postg this photo on the ver of their Facebook page.

It was staged bee the IDF Spokperson’s Office wanted to portray the most accurate picture of how the IDF views s homosexual soldiers: wh love and pri, as they do every other soldier. (It also bears mentng that the picture is ditive of a culture wh the Israeli Defense Forc that the straight soldier feels fortable enough his masculy, and wh his fellow soldier’s homosexualy, to be seen such a public image holdg hands wh him.

GAY TEL AVIV

Tel Aviv Pri is fally here and ’s g hot! We've prepared a plete list of the gay-iendlit ci Israel to have the most fun . * israel gay men *

So for those of you who know nothg at all about this nflict, and wish to be jt a ltle more rmed so you n start to form an opn, I ask you to nsir this one fact as Tel Aviv celebrat s annual Gay Pri Ftival this week:. Although Tel Aviv may be where all the actn is (as is the se wh most pursus Israel), ask any gay who liv here, or any gay who’s been here, and they will tell you that Israelis are the most open and welg society the world toward homosexuals. Cohen manag to stay relatively anonymo Tel Aviv, but Manhattan’s Chelsea or Madrid’s Chue neighborhoods, would be impossible to fd someone who did not know exactly who he was — the most famo gay Israeli in of recent years.

Tvada as Preventative for HIV Lol Gays Make the List The Ultimate Gui for Tel Aviv's Pri Week Ever sce he appeared three years ago on the ver of Spartac, the bible of gay tourism, Cohen has been a sought-after mol.

AMIR OHANA IS GAY AND RIGHT-WG. HOW FAR CAN HE GO ISRAEL?

He is also the owner of the PAPA party le that has been succsful dozens of ci all over the world, the -owner of Gay-ville, a gay vatn rental service, a star of gay-themed YouTube vios — and the fantasy of lns of men. ” Cohen is the extreme embodiment of the ntemporary Israeli gay man: He liv eely and openly, striv for succs and self-actualizatn and mak no apology for his masculy or days, Cohen is lnchg a llectn that bears his name wh the Atralian brand BCNÜ and an onle store wh PAPA merchandise. It was six years ago that they took a tra om Acre to Tel Aviv and arrived at Eva Bar, a proment gay bar the cy to this day.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* ISRAEL GAY MEN

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