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- JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
- MODI ROSENFELD, GAY JEWISH COMEDIAN, TALKS ‘MOSHIACH’ ENERGY, CELEBRATG SHABBAT AND COMPARISONS TO ROB WILLIAMS AND RICHARD PRYOR
- MODI IS GAY: #2 PROOF
- IS MODI GAY?
- HUNDREDS MARCH NEW DELHI FOR GAY PRI MODI'S INDIA
- TIM COOK ULD BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO TO BE HOSTED BY MODI A HOMOPHOBIC INDIA
- MODI_IS_GAY
- MODI’S TWEET FOR ORLANDO SHOOTG VICTIMS SPARKS BATE ON INDIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW
JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
Gay sex was crimalised 2018 but the topic of same-sex marriage remas highly sensive, wh tensns nng high before a Supreme Court hearg on Monday. Leaked documents suggt the ernment oppos legal regnn. * modi gay *
India's top urt crimalised homosexualy a historic verdict 2018 by scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay sex, followg years of activism and latt se is seen as an important tone the velopment of LGBT rights India, home to 1. India's first openly gay prce says parents wanted him to have 'nversn bra surgery'. The issue is still highly sensive: speakg openly about homosexualy is still taboo for many the socially nservative least 15 pleas, some by gay upl, askg the urt to regnise same-sex marriag have been filed recent months, settg the stage for this legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment.
Sgapore last year end a ban on gay sex but took steps to bar same-sex is the only untry among the Group of Seven (G7) natns that do not legally regnise same-sex unns, although the public broadly favours India, the issue has fuelled tensns the media and parliament, where a member of Modi's lg Hdu natnalist party December asked the ernment to strongly oppose the petns filed the top activists argue that while the 2018 lg affirmed their nstutnal rights, is unjt that they still miss out on legal backg for their marriag - a basic right enjoyed by heterosexual married upl.
MODI ROSENFELD, GAY JEWISH COMEDIAN, TALKS ‘MOSHIACH’ ENERGY, CELEBRATG SHABBAT AND COMPARISONS TO ROB WILLIAMS AND RICHARD PRYOR
A judge who uld pave the way to legalizg gay marriage India took charge Wednday as chief jtice at a time when Prime Mister Narendra Modi’s Hdu-natnalist agenda domat polics and throws up challeng for the urt. * modi gay *
Y ChandrachudPhotographer: Prodip Guha/Getty ImagA judge who uld pave the way to legalizg gay marriage India took charge Wednday as chief jtice at a time when Prime Mister Narendra Modi’s Hdu-natnalist agenda domat polics and throws up challeng for the a judge on the top urt Jtice D. Chandrachud was a member of the five-member bench that crimalized gay sex.
MODI IS GAY: #2 PROOF
Gay Jewish edian Modi Rosenfeld talks Moshiach energy and parisons to Richard Prr and Rob Williams * modi gay *
Is modi gay? The pair talk about livg and travelg together, and a recent episo revealed they would be vatng on Fire Island, which has a famo gay scene, wh proment gay Jewish okbook thor Jake Cohen.
IS MODI GAY?
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And they don’t need gay material — they need the material for this dience.
The Variety article was born of Rosenfeld’s epeng belief that ’s possible to merge his Orthodox and gay inti more publicly — somethg that he has long done as a ngregant and sometim-ntor at the Morn Orthodox synagogue he attends the East Village. And somehow, gays have been attracted to e to this synagogue, ” he said.
“We have a whole group of gay people and we have a whole group of trans people wele.
HUNDREDS MARCH NEW DELHI FOR GAY PRI MODI'S INDIA
Hundreds of people danced, sang and cheered a gay pri para India's pal on Sunday, the first sce the untry's top urt restated a ban on gay sex the world's largt mocracy. * modi gay *
For Rosenfeld, there’s no tensn between Jewish observance and beg gay — although his articulatn of why reveals an awarens of the pa that others might feel tryg. “Beg gay, you n keep Shabbos, you n keep kosher, you n keep anythg you want to do, ” he said. When Rosenfeld shared the Variety article on his Instagram page, the vast majory of the nearly 800 ments left by fans and iends showed support for his public embrace of his gay inty.
TIM COOK ULD BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CEO TO BE HOSTED BY MODI A HOMOPHOBIC INDIA
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“It’s amazg that you announce that you are gay, ” one fan wrote. “You are an example to all the Jews stgglg wh their gayns.
“I n’t believe you are gay, ” wrote one person.
MODI_IS_GAY
Sce he has started addg gay material to his repertoire, his dienc have been creasgly LGBTQ, like at some of the “Holidazed” shows he performed December at Sony Hall New York. Still, he noted, “onstage, I’m more Jewish than I am gay. They also said they were surprised by how weled they felt as a gay uple at a Republin event, and remarked on how many of the polil figur and donors they met were exced to show them pictur of all the other gay upl they knew.
MODI’S TWEET FOR ORLANDO SHOOTG VICTIMS SPARKS BATE ON INDIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW
Schneerson nsired homosexualy a s and advoted for Jews to choose not to yield to homosexual urg. “Some people will see this as a kd of affirmative step that you don’t have to abandon your relig inty bee you’re gay.
He’s gay. He keeps kosher and he puts on tefill and he go to Shabbat servic – but he is also gay, ” says Rosenfeld, who creds his hband-manager, Leo Veiga, wh helpg to sprgboard his reer the past several years.
Part of that Moshiach energy is enuragg gay Jewish dividuals, pecially those om strict Orthodox backgrounds which g out as gay is often an alienatg experience ght wh tensn and anxiety, to forever rema proud of who they are. “I want a gay kid listeng to me or readg this, a kid om, say, an Orthodox Jewish fay, to know that you n still keep Shabbat and you n still be gay and you n still be happy and brg Moshiach energy to the world, ” says Rosenfeld.