Together 48 years, gay Jewish uple fights NC marriage ban | The Tim of Israel

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 . 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.

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.

GAY JEWISH UPLE GETS ENGAGED AT TROYE SIVAN NCERT

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. ” 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.

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

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.

TOGETHER 48 YEARS, GAY JEWISH UPLE FIGHTS NC MARRIAGE BAN

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. 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Lennie Gerber walks near the Gay Pri mags and bumper stickers that rate the reigerator at her home High Pot, N. First, should the Uned Stat ernment legalize same-sex marriage, offerg homosexual upl the same legal benefs that married heterosexual upl have? Renstctnist JudaismThe Renstctnist movement exprsed s support for the full cln of gay men and lbians all aspects of Jewish life s 1992 Report of the Renstctnist Commissn on Homosexualy.

The report affirmed the hols of homosexual relatnships and the need to affirm them a Jewish ntext: “As we celebrate the love between heterosexual upl, so too we celebrate the love between gay or lbian Jews. ” The Renstctnist movement today also fully endors efforts to legalize civil same-sex marriag and grant homosexual upl equal benefs.

GAY RABBIS GETTG MARRIED — AND MARRYG

Renstctnist Rabbi Rebec Alpert, thor of Like Bread on the Ser Plate: Jewish Lbians and the Transformatn of Tradn and -thor of Explorg Judaism: A Renstctnist Approach, has argued that the Jewish prciple of enomic jtice mands support for civil gay and lbian marriage, bee the absence of legal benefs for same-genr upl n e them signifint fancial harm.

The Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis (CCAR), the profsnal associatn of Reform rabbis, passed a rolutn 1996 opposg “ernmental efforts to ban gay and lbian marriage. ” The Unn of Amerin Hebrew Congregatns, the ngregatnal arm of the Reform movement, followed su 1997, rolvg to, “support secular efforts to promote legislatn which would provi civil marriage equal opportuny for gay men and lbians. In 1997, the CCAR Commtee on Rponsa voted by a majory of 7 to 2 that homosexual relatnships do not f wh the Jewish legal tegory of kiddh.

It also lled for the velopment of sample ceremoni to be ed as a rource for those rabbis who plan to perform same-sex Jewish Conservative MovementUntil very recently same-sex marriage and other gay and lbian issu met wh ltle nsens the Conservative movement. Then, June 2012 the Commtee of Jewish Law and Standards, voted 13-0 wh one abstentn to formally approve gay marriage ceremoni.

HOW N YOU BE GAY AND JEWISH?

The mtee veloped two kds of ceremoni that n be ed as a gui for a rabbi marryg a same-sex uple, neher of which nta kiddh, and also issued a gui to homosexual divorce. As JW3, the Jewish muny centre north London, lnch GayW3, celebratg the liv of the LGBTQ muny throughout history to the prent day through film, theatre, mic and discsn, and upliftg Brish-Israeli documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, backed by the BFI, prepar for s cema release, now is a great time to look back at the bt of Jewish and Israeli LGBT cema. Gay Jewish characters have been the subject of great films om around the world, and the list below featur films om the UK, France, Germany, the US, and, of urse, Israel.

A number of Brish films jt missed the list, cludg Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), which Jewish doctor Peter Fch enjoyed Brish cema’s first male-on-male kiss; award-wng short film Sidney Turtlebm (2008), starrg Derek Jabi as an elrly gay Jewish pickpocket and nman; and Lisa Gornick’s latt film, The Book of Gabrielle (2016), a funny and sharp study of a Jewish lbian whose sexualy is thrown to turmoil.

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

The 10 films foc on culturally Jewish films featurg gay and lbian protagonists, almost all of which were directed by Jewish filmmakers. His adaptatn of Mart Crowley’s play, about a group of gay men who gather for Harold’s party, rultg a cel eveng of sadistic gam and sabotage, me at the wrong time – as the gay liberatn movement tablished s voice the early 1970s, negative or prsg pictns of gay men the media were seen as archaic and obstctive to progrs. While Michael, the pathetic protagonist, is ed an unlikeable and self-pyg monster, the other characters are far more sympathetic, while the glor Harold, utterly unashamed of his homosexualy and wh nothg to hi, emerg om the rnage unsthed.

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)Harvey Fierste is bt known for his stage work, particularly for wrg the books for the stage mils La Cage x Foll and Kky Boots, jog Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman as Broadway legends who happened to be both gay and Jewish. The star of the show, though, is Fierste, who mak Arnold a lovable, vulgar and believably human figure who challenged the perceptn of drag queens as sexls clowns shamg the gay muny. He kicked off his short reer wh Driftg (1982), a grim, semi-tobgraphil tale of a gay filmmaker tryg and failg to fd love and fundg for his next film.

GAY MARRIAGE

Amazg Grace, ma nearly a later, is a much stronger piece of work, about two gay men – one an nocent teenager om a troubled fay, the other an HIV patient – who fall for each other after meetg Tel Aviv. In Man Is a Woman, he brgs all his nsirable charm and charisma to the role of Simon, a gay Klezmer mician who is offered 10 ln ancs om his tradnalist uncle if he agre to marry a woman. Is the meang of the film’s tle, explaed at the vibrant Jewish weddg that starts the film, a homophobic nonsense?

An attempted kiss at a New Year’s Eve party velops to a passnate romance, but the vlently homophobic and antisemic world of wartime Berl threatens their happs. Few gay and lbian survivors were alive to tell their stori when Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman ma their important documentary Paragraph 175, whose tle riv om the German act of law prohibg gay sex, which ntued to exist to the 1990s. Rather than producg a para of cshed victims, the film foregrounds the sharp mentary of Gad Beck, a Jewish gay man who helped refuge pe; the wistful memori of love lost om Hez F., still too guard to reveal his full name; and the undiluted anger of Pierre Seel, who was tortured by Nazi officers.