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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
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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.
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JESALEM IS PRECISELY THE PLACE FOR A GAY PRI PARA
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.