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
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- OVER 250,000 REVELERS FLOOD TEL AVIV FOR ISRAEL’S BIGGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
- ISRAEL’S GAY PRI PARAS REVEAL JT HOW FAR THE NATN HAS STRAYED OM S BIBLIL FOUNDATNS
- GAY PRI PARA SET TO MARCH THROUGH JESALEM LATER TODAY
OVER 250,000 REVELERS FLOOD TEL AVIV FOR ISRAEL’S BIGGT EVER GAY PRI PARA
Israelis and visors celebrate eedom and tolerance at 20th annual event self-styled 'most gay-iendly cy' world * israel pride gay parade *
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”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.
ISRAEL’S GAY PRI PARAS REVEAL JT HOW FAR THE NATN HAS STRAYED OM S BIBLIL FOUNDATNS
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.
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.
GAY PRI PARA SET TO MARCH THROUGH JESALEM LATER TODAY
Ripped men whe unrwear, pk bunny ears and black bow ti gyrated through the streets of Israel’s Tel Aviv on Friday along wh drag queens and others to loud trance mic for the annual Gay Pri Para — the biggt event of s kd the regn. The Tel Aviv Municipaly said over 250, 000 people celebrated at the cy’s 20th Gay Pri Para, an event that draws people om around the world to party at the Israeli beach cy that has built an image of an oasis of tolerance for the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny. Across the rt of the Middle East, gay and lbian relatnships are mostly taboo.
A drag queen tak part the annual Gay Pri para the Israeli cy of Tel Aviv, on June 8, 2018.
“Tel Aviv is the big cy of gays!