Organizers expect Jesalem Gay Pri Para to be the largt ever; claim the importance of the annual event this year while rights are unr threat om the ernment and vlence agast LGBTQ+ members on the rise
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ISRAEL SET TO LNCH 2023 GAY PRI MONTH
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Organizers expect Jesalem Gay Pri Para to be the largt ever; claim the importance of the annual event this year while rights are unr threat om the ernment and vlence agast LGBTQ+ members on the riseIsrael is set to Lnch Gay Pri Month on Thursday, wh a rerd-breakg 100 events planned around the untry and paras will take place where they had not before. 2 View gallery A protter holds an Israeli and rabow flag durg a monstratn outsi the Tel Aviv rabbate(Photo: Nadav Av)This year the LGBTQ+ muny's rights are unr threat om the most right-wg and relig ernment the untry's history cludg the prence of homophobic puty mister Avi Maoz who has brand LGBTQ as viants.
"Gay pri events are seen as a prott and ll for equal rights, personal secury and the advancement of tolerance Israeli society, " the LGBTQ+ associatn said a statement. On the year when our rights and eedoms are unr threat om the ernment, the gay muny will monstrate, prott and celebrate our culture, inty and love wh pri, " she said.
Many of the achievements of the past year are danger and the polil climate has already ed vlence towards members of the gay muny, and an crease lls to psychologil and emotnal hotl, " activist and chairman of Jesalem's Open Hoe for Pri and Tolerance Jonathan Valfer said.
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More than ever before, this year’s Jesalem gay pri para offered a stage for opponents of the current far-right/ultra-Orthodox aln and the judicial overhl advanced by the ernment. * gay pride parade jerusalem 2023 *
JERUSALEM — Jesalem’s 21st gay pri para, held Thursday wh some 30, 000 participants, was pecially polil this year wh lears of the opposn takg the stage to fend Israel’s mocratic para took place unr heavy societal tensns. Tragic memori of the 2015 murr of 16-year-old Shira Banki by an ultra-Orthodox zealot durg that year's gay pri march hovered over everythg.
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Several policians intified wh homophobic and anti-gay stanc hold key posns the current ernment, makg this year’s para pecially tense.
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On the morng of the para, Jesalem’s Deputy Mayor Yosi Havil nducted six alternative weddg servic for members of the gay muny his municipal office. In a public statement, Havil said, “Anyone who has a problem wh gay upl is wele to move to another cy. ”“This is the most important gay pri para ever, ” said Hila Pe’er, chair of Aguda, Israel’s LGBT task force.
That is our rponse to the homophobia, prejudice and discrimatn oozg om the ernment. ”The history of Jesalem’s gay pri para shows that this nnot be taken for granted the cy that is home to hundreds of thoands of relig and ultra-Orthodox rints.
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Jesalem’s gay pri para was first lnched the summer of 2002, spe vocifero opposn om a cy uncil domated by ultra-Orthodox parti led by then Deputy Mayor Uri Lopoliansky. While Amir Ohana of the Likud, an openly gay man who has children wh his partner, serv as speaker of the Knset, his senr posn was not mentned even once at the event.