A Young Hasidic Man Leads a Gay Double Life 'Black Hat'

Contents:

• THIS IS WHAT LIFE LOOKS LIKE AS A GAY, JEWISH-PALTIAN, MARRIED COUPLE
• A YOUNG HASIDIC MAN LEADS A GAY DOUBLE LIFE BLACK HAT
• GAY JEWISH UPLE GETS ENGAGED AT TROYE SIVAN NCERT
• MEET THE RABBI WHO BRGS ORTHODOX LBIANS TOGETHER WH GAY MEN SO THEY N HAVE KIDS
• TOGETHER 48 YEARS, GAY JEWISH UPLE FIGHTS NC MARRIAGE BAN
• IN ‘CIRC OF BOOKS,’ A NICE JEWISH UPLE FDS SUCCS GAY PORN
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• GAY RABBIS GETTG MARRIED — AND MARRYG
• HOW N YOU BE GAY AND JEWISH?
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• GAY MARRIAGE

THIS IS WHAT LIFE LOOKS LIKE AS A GAY, JEWISH-PALTIAN, MARRIED COUPLE

First ed at a gay Jewish weddg 1986, the br ahuvim, or lover’s ntract, rporat the stcture of a shtar shutafim, or bs partnership. For their weddg, Greenberg and Cohen turned to Rabbi Steve Greenberg, the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, to velop a ceremony which bed bs partnership ntracts wh Jewish tradns of vow-takg and oaths to create a bdg agreement of obligatns unr Jewish law.

“There were not that many halachilly mted gay Jews out there who were tryg to get married wh the purview of halacha, and really took serly, ” she said.

A YOUNG HASIDIC MAN LEADS A GAY DOUBLE LIFE BLACK HAT

“My biggt fear was that my parents would go to shul and people would say, ‘oh, they’re the parents of that gay girl, ’” Lnbm said “And that is exactly what happened, but my parents were so proud of .

GAY JEWISH UPLE GETS ENGAGED AT TROYE SIVAN NCERT

They’re among many gay Jewish upl rooted tradnal observance who see their weddgs as not jt personal celebratns, but public exampl of what’s possible the observant muny more broadly.

MEET THE RABBI WHO BRGS ORTHODOX LBIANS TOGETHER WH GAY MEN SO THEY N HAVE KIDS

So, Shmuel (Adam Silver) leads a double life -- prayg at the synagogue and managg a dry cleang bs by day, and then traversg gay bars by night -- at least while his wife and children are out of town.

TOGETHER 48 YEARS, GAY JEWISH UPLE FIGHTS NC MARRIAGE BAN

The South Ain Jewish pop star and gay in helped a Jewish man propose to his boyiend at a Tuday eveng performance New York. Also, the para brought out a new gun ntrol group, Gays Agast Guns, spired by the shootg this month at an Orlando nightclub that left 49 ad. Frank, of urse, never beme speaker — but his g out durg the height of the AIDS crisis (and beg one of the first openly gay US ngrsmen) remas a big piece of his profsnal legacy.

IN ‘CIRC OF BOOKS,’ A NICE JEWISH UPLE FDS SUCCS GAY PORN

” But her personal life took what appeared to be an unfunny turn when she divorced her hband of 20-pl years, Peter Marc Jabson, and he me out as gay.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

The epic two-part op, which exam the plexy of gay life and relatnships the 1980s, premiered 1991 and went on to w the Pulzer Prize, the Tony Award for bt play and the Drama Dk Award for outstandg play. In addn to wrg screenplays for films like “Munich” and “Lln, ” he has sce wrten fens of gay ialism and spoken publicly about the AIDS crisis. His 1978 novel “Faggots, ” about the hedonistic liftyl of many gay men New York at the time, earned him enemi both gay and straight.

His semi-tobgraphil 1985 play “A Normal Heart” — spired by a vis to the Dach ncentratn mp — portrayed an angry gay activist fed up wh the more pole strategi adopted by his lleagu. Kramer was a -founr of the massively fluential Gay Men’s Health Crisis, now one of the biggt AIDS service anizatns the world, but was forced out due to his nontatnal meanor and went on to found the AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power, or ACT UP. When Rabbi Denise Eger beme the print of the Reform movement’s Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis last year, she did not bee the first openly gay or lbian clergy member to lead a rabbil group.

GAY RABBIS GETTG MARRIED — AND MARRYG

His book “Why Marriage Matters: Ameri, Equaly and Gay People’s Right To Marry” earned him a spot on the Time 100 list 2004. His book “Wrtlg wh God and Men: Homosexualy the Jewish tradn” won the Koret Foundatn’s Jewish Book Award 2005.

Rabbi Steven Greenberg, seen 2014, was the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi and has propelled the nversatn about LGBTQ acceptance the Orthodox muny. The uple also swapped out the tradnal first blsg, whose scriptns of sexual rtrictn are rooted the Levic passage that also prohibs gay sex, and stead chose the Jewish blsg said on a rabow, which not only symboliz the eternal venant between God and human begs, as scribed Genis, but is a symbol of gay pri.

HOW N YOU BE GAY AND JEWISH?

But, ultimately, he felt that paperg over the differenc between a queer and non-queer weddg wouldn’t do jtice to his own story, as he grew up a tradnal observant Jewish hoehold where was assumed that he would have a tradnal weddg, but then, by g out as gay, he went through tim when he thought that he would never have that. Rabbi Arele Harel offers an unnventnal solutn for Orthodox Jewish gay men who want to raise a nventnal fay: He fix them up wh Orthodox matchmakg service, which has jt gone onle, has met cricism on opposg onts.

Orthodox Jewish rabbis say Harel should be dog more to enurage gays and lbians to try to change their sexual orientatn.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

For those who n't changeHarel believ some gays n alter their sexual orientatn through therapy, and sists many do. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn has clared no solid evince exists that such change is said his method is meant for those who n't change, yet want to rema observant and have began matchg lbians and gay men six years ago, he said, bee he regnized a "ep distrs" among people "facg a ad end road.

"More recently, Kamoha, a relig gay group, began receivg quiri om gay men and lbian women about this approach.

GAY MARRIAGE

Once they are married, they each pay around $400 for Harel's 's secular majory has largely embraced the Wtern gay rights movement that has led to six ci, among them New York, legalizg same-sex gay marriage IsraelThere is no gay marriage Israel primarily bee there is no civil marriage and all weddgs mt be done through the Jewish rabbate, which do not marry gays and nsirs homosexualy a s and a vlatn of Jewish adoptn is officially illegal but some upl get around the law and surrogacy is an optn for many same-sex upl.

There are mpaigns to allow for civil marriage which uld eventually pave the way for legalizg gay marriage but Israel is far om, Tel Aviv is nsired one of the most gay-iendly ci the world, wh annual pri paras fillg streets and rockg to late Orthodox Jews, homosexualy generally is nsired an abomatn. Only the more liberal streams of Judaism embrace gay upl and even gay recent years, a number of relig gay groups have emerged, jog pri paras and mandg to be accepted while not gog so far as to ask for relig regnn for their liberal relig gay group Havta oppos Harel's approach, sayg seeks to "erase" homosexuals om the Orthodox muny. Yonatan Gher, the head of the Jesalem Open Hoe, a gay muny center and advocy group, said he don't judge the liftyle choice Harel advot, but hop young relig homosexuals don't feel prsured to choosg have cricized Harel's method bee don't try to disurage gays and lbians om seekg to change their sexual orientatn.

On Wednday, the appellate panel refed to lay s lg, possibly clearg the way for gay marriag to beg next week the Old Domn.