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 RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH
- IN PICTUR: GAY PRI PARA JESALEM
- JESALEM IS PRECISELY THE PLACE FOR A GAY PRI PARA
GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH
Amid anger over gay parental surrogacy rights, natn-state law, large crowds gather the pal, wh many sayg they are marchg 'for those who still n't' * jerusalem gay pride parade 2018 *
The march a week after more than 60, 000 monstrators Tel Aviv protted the Knset’s passage of a new surrogacy law that exclus gay upl as well as sgle men. That monstratn pped off a day of strik and protts support of gay surrogacy and the LGBTQ muny.
Participants attend the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para on Augt 2, 2018. Participants gather ahead of the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para on Augt 2, 2018.
The monstratn was highly polil, wh many atten prottg a recent law nyg gay upl the right to surrogacy. A participant attends the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para on Augt 2, 2018.
IN PICTUR: GAY PRI PARA JESALEM
Jesalem’s gay pri para kicked off Thursday afternoon wh some 20, 000 Israelis floodg the streets of the pal, unr heavy police protectn.
2 e) march through the cy center me after a month of LGBT muny protts agast a surrogacy law passed last month that exclud gay men — and three years after a adly knife attack at the Jesalem march by an ultra-Orthodox zealot that killed 16-year-old marcher Shira Banki. Participants Jesalem’s Gay Pri Para, Augt 2, 2018. Lehava activists claimed police officers “disguised themselv as gays” orr to filtrate their prott and ta one of their members.
The event was held the shadow of wispread tratn over a recent law that bars gay men om surrogacy parenthood rights. 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 IS PRECISELY THE PLACE FOR A GAY PRI PARA
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.
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.