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• THE BT ISRAELI LGBT FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH GAY PRI PARA COURTY OF FLICKR | U.S. EMBASSY TEL AVIV DEBORAH MOHER 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED GAY SCENE ISRAEL WH AN ECLECTIC VARIETY OF SOME OF THE MOST NTROVERSIAL AND CELEBRATED LGBT FILMS WRTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED THE UNTRY. VIEW ALL TRIPS DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP SPA ECUADOR MEXI BALI MOROC THAILAND ICELAND JAPAN EGYPT CROATIA TURKEY SOUTH AI GREECE INDIA ORIENTED (2012) ORIENTED IS A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE GAY PALTIAN IENDS THEIR 20S LIVG LIFE TEL AVIV. IT WAS IALLY RELEASED JUNE 2015 AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FTIVAL, AND WAS DIRECTED BY JAKE WZENFELD AS HIS FEATURE BUT. THE FILM IS NOT ONLY A MORN TALE OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF BEG GAY SOCIETY, ALSO DOCUMENTS THE DIFFICULTI OF BEG GAY FOR PALTIAN MEN AND HOW THE ISSUE CLASH WH ISLAMIC DOCTRE. THE THREE BT IENDS CI TO FORM A GROUP LLED ‘QAMBUTA,’ HOPG TO BRG ABOUT CHANGE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO THEIR UNIQUE SEXUAL AND NATNAL INTI. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP YOSSI & JAGGER (2002) YOSSI AND JAGGER WAS RELEASED 2002 AND HAS SCE BEE A CULT MT-SEE. DIRECTED BY EYTAN FOX, THIS ROMANTIC FILM FOLLOWS TWO GAY SOLDIERS THE ISRAELI ARY AS THEY AL WH DAILY LIFE AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORR. YOSSI IS A MANR AND IS VOLVED A SECRET, PASSNATE LOVE AFFAIR WH HIS SEND--MAND (WHO IS NICKNAMED JAGGER). THE TWO OFTEN SNEAK OFF OM THE OUTPOST TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. AN AMBH LEAV JAGGER WOUND, AND PLITNS ENSUE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. OUT THE DARK (2013) ANOTHER POLILLY PROVOTIVE TALE, OUT THE DARK TELLS THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI LAWYER WHO FALLS FOR A PALTIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUNT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AT THE INTERNATNAL HAIFA FILM FTIVAL. THE FILM, A DIRECTORIAL BUT FOR MICHAEL MAYER, PORTRAYS THE POLIL PLITNS OF AN ISRAELI FALLG LOVE WH A PALTIAN THE WT BANK AND THE EVABLE PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALY A NSERVATIVE MLIM SOCIETY. - AME - CUPK (2013) IN A DIFFERENT GENRE OM THE CELEBRATED EYTAN FOX, DIRECTOR OF YOSSI AND JAGGER, CUPK IS A SWEET EDY OF A GROUP OF FIVE IENDS TEL AVIV WHO ENTER THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT AS A JOKE. THEY ARE SHOCKED TO FD OUT THAT THEIR ENTRY WAS ACCEPTED. THE FILM FOLLOWS THE LGBT-IENDLY GROUP AS THEY GO FORWARD WH THE IAL JOKE THAT IS NOW TAKEN SERLY BY EACH MEMBER FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL REASONS. - AME - PAPER DOLLS (2006) PAPER DOLLS IS A CHARMG DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWG THE LIV OF TRANSGENR FILIPOS WHO HAVE E TO ISRAEL TO WORK AS RE-WORKERS FOR ELRLY JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN. THE DOCUMENTARY PAPER DOLLS ( HEBREW BOOBOT NIYAR) WAS RELEASED 2006 BY DIRECTOR TOMER HEYMANN. THE DOCUMENTARY WAS SHOT OVER A LONG FIVE-YEAR PERD AND WAS FEATURED A VARIETY OF TERNATNAL FILM FTIVALS TO A POSIVE RECEPTN. - AME - YOSSI (2012) A SEQUEL TO EYTAN FOX’S YOSSI AND JAGGER, THE FILM YOSSI FOLLOWS THE TLE CHARACTER’S LIFE FOLLOWG HIS ENUNTER WH JAGGER TEN YEARS EARLIER. YOSSI IS A 34-YEAR-OLD RDLOGIST TRYG TO PE WH HIS TRMATIC PAST AND HIS PRENT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AND IS FOX’S FIFTH FEATURE FILM. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• BT GAY BARS TEL AVIV
• GAY ISRAEL
• GAY ISRAEL TRAVEL GUI
• DERECHOS LOS GAYS EN ISRAEL
• GAY JESALEM
• ETRE GAY EN ISRAëL, UN « BAT TO L JOURS »
• SNAS & CISG GAY ISRAEL

THE BT ISRAELI LGBT FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH GAY PRI PARA COURTY OF FLICKR | U.S. EMBASSY TEL AVIV DEBORAH MOHER 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED GAY SCENE ISRAEL WH AN ECLECTIC VARIETY OF SOME OF THE MOST NTROVERSIAL AND CELEBRATED LGBT FILMS WRTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED THE UNTRY. VIEW ALL TRIPS DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP SPA ECUADOR MEXI BALI MOROC THAILAND ICELAND JAPAN EGYPT CROATIA TURKEY SOUTH AI GREECE INDIA ORIENTED (2012) ORIENTED IS A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE GAY PALTIAN IENDS THEIR 20S LIVG LIFE TEL AVIV. IT WAS IALLY RELEASED JUNE 2015 AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FTIVAL, AND WAS DIRECTED BY JAKE WZENFELD AS HIS FEATURE BUT. THE FILM IS NOT ONLY A MORN TALE OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF BEG GAY SOCIETY, ALSO DOCUMENTS THE DIFFICULTI OF BEG GAY FOR PALTIAN MEN AND HOW THE ISSUE CLASH WH ISLAMIC DOCTRE. THE THREE BT IENDS CI TO FORM A GROUP LLED ‘QAMBUTA,’ HOPG TO BRG ABOUT CHANGE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO THEIR UNIQUE SEXUAL AND NATNAL INTI. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP YOSSI & JAGGER (2002) YOSSI AND JAGGER WAS RELEASED 2002 AND HAS SCE BEE A CULT MT-SEE. DIRECTED BY EYTAN FOX, THIS ROMANTIC FILM FOLLOWS TWO GAY SOLDIERS THE ISRAELI ARY AS THEY AL WH DAILY LIFE AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORR. YOSSI IS A MANR AND IS VOLVED A SECRET, PASSNATE LOVE AFFAIR WH HIS SEND--MAND (WHO IS NICKNAMED JAGGER). THE TWO OFTEN SNEAK OFF OM THE OUTPOST TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. AN AMBH LEAV JAGGER WOUND, AND PLITNS ENSUE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. OUT THE DARK (2013) ANOTHER POLILLY PROVOTIVE TALE, OUT THE DARK TELLS THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI LAWYER WHO FALLS FOR A PALTIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUNT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AT THE INTERNATNAL HAIFA FILM FTIVAL. THE FILM, A DIRECTORIAL BUT FOR MICHAEL MAYER, PORTRAYS THE POLIL PLITNS OF AN ISRAELI FALLG LOVE WH A PALTIAN THE WT BANK AND THE EVABLE PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALY A NSERVATIVE MLIM SOCIETY. - AME - CUPK (2013) IN A DIFFERENT GENRE OM THE CELEBRATED EYTAN FOX, DIRECTOR OF YOSSI AND JAGGER, CUPK IS A SWEET EDY OF A GROUP OF FIVE IENDS TEL AVIV WHO ENTER THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT AS A JOKE. THEY ARE SHOCKED TO FD OUT THAT THEIR ENTRY WAS ACCEPTED. THE FILM FOLLOWS THE LGBT-IENDLY GROUP AS THEY GO FORWARD WH THE IAL JOKE THAT IS NOW TAKEN SERLY BY EACH MEMBER FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL REASONS. - AME - PAPER DOLLS (2006) PAPER DOLLS IS A CHARMG DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWG THE LIV OF TRANSGENR FILIPOS WHO HAVE E TO ISRAEL TO WORK AS RE-WORKERS FOR ELRLY JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN. THE DOCUMENTARY PAPER DOLLS ( HEBREW BOOBOT NIYAR) WAS RELEASED 2006 BY DIRECTOR TOMER HEYMANN. THE DOCUMENTARY WAS SHOT OVER A LONG FIVE-YEAR PERD AND WAS FEATURED A VARIETY OF TERNATNAL FILM FTIVALS TO A POSIVE RECEPTN. - AME - YOSSI (2012) A SEQUEL TO EYTAN FOX’S YOSSI AND JAGGER, THE FILM YOSSI FOLLOWS THE TLE CHARACTER’S LIFE FOLLOWG HIS ENUNTER WH JAGGER TEN YEARS EARLIER. YOSSI IS A 34-YEAR-OLD RDLOGIST TRYG TO PE WH HIS TRMATIC PAST AND HIS PRENT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AND IS FOX’S FIFTH FEATURE FILM. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

(JTA) — The mister holdg the untry’s purse strgs lls himself a “proud homophobe. “The majory of the gay muny Israel is feelg very unsafe, ” said Hila Peer, the chairwoman of Aguda-The Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel. “You have at least an tentn to legislate laws that are dire for the gay muny.

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Netanyahu and others his aln say they are mted to protectg gay rights, but the volatile polil suatn means the future is hard to predict. Israel is known as a gay haven the Middle East, and Tel Aviv is equently ced as one of the most gay-iendly ci the world, wh a Pri para that draws hundreds of thoands of revelers om Israel and abroad. A rarely enforced ban on homosexual relatns was taken off the books 1988, and the army began allowg openly gay service members 1993 — the same year the U.

Armed forc adopted a policy permtg gay service members only if they remaed closeted. Dpe the legal protectns, LGBTQ Israelis have long faced opposn om wh the haredi Orthodox sector, where rabbis veigh agast homosexualy and policians have vowed to n the untry acrdg to Orthodox terpretatns of Jewish law. The Relig Znist Party, one of three the Relig Znist Bloc, is led by Bezalel Smotrich, who has lled himself a “proud homophobe” and has envisned Israel as a theocracy.

He lled the ia of lettg medil provirs ny re to LGBTQ patients “unacceptable” and has appoted a close ally who is gay, Amir Ohana, as Knset speaker. LGBTQ Israelis are playg a ccial role the mountg anti-ernment protts, activatg a work that put some 100, 000 people the streets 2018 after Netanyahu voted agast a bill to allow gay upl to e surrogacy.

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In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

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Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

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Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

“Así que ve hoy para enentarme a te pectro malvado”, agregó Levy, quien explicó que n su prencia quería jar claro su rpaldo a la unidad LGBT+ mistro Salud Israel Nzan Horowz, quien abiertamente gay (EFE/EPA/ABIR SULTAN/Archivo). En Israel, los miembros la unidad LGBT+ sirven abiertamente en el Ejérco y el parlamento Israel, y muchos artistas popular, así o el actual mistro salud l país, son abiertamente nuevo gobierno Israel, enbezado por Naftali Bent, prohibió te año las llamadas terapias nversión para personas LGBT+, y también levantó la prohibición para que los hombr gays pudien donar sangre. We take a look at the celebrated gay scene Israel wh an eclectic variety of some of the most ntroversial and celebrated LGBT films wrten, directed and produced the untry.

Oriented (2012) Oriented is a fascatg documentary film about three gay Paltian iends their 20s livg life Tel Aviv. The film is not only a morn tale of the trials and tribulatns of beg gay society, also documents the difficulti of beg gay for Paltian men and how the issue clash wh Islamic doctre.

DERECHOS LOS GAYS EN ISRAEL

Directed by Eytan Fox, this romantic film follows two gay soldiers the Israeli ary as they al wh daily life at the Israel-Lebanon borr. The film, a directorial but for Michael Mayer, portrays the polil plitns of an Israeli fallg love wh a Paltian the Wt Bank and the evable problems of homosexualy a nservative Mlim society. I thk we n all agree that homosexuals have been, and ntue to be, one of the most vulnerable groups any society.

This is also nsired by most – pecially today’s youth – to be the fg civil rights issue of our time, so let’s take a look how both Israelis and Paltians treat the gay people their rpective societi. “Tarek, a young Paltian gay man spected of homosexualy, was sentenced to a “retn” mp n by Mlim clerics unr Paltian Authory jurisdictn. – Paltian Authory tak part wispread and sadistic timidatn, torture, imprisonment and aths of gays.

– Gay Paltian men are riskg their liv to cross to Israel, claimg they feel safer among Israelis than their own people. There are now 300 gay Paltian men secretly livg and workg Israel.

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– Gay Christian Paltian who fled the PA for Israel, criciz the opprsive Paltian society and says, ntrast, Israel allows gays the “eedom to exprs (their) sex and take pri ”.

The are jt a few of the many stori we uld list here to highlight Paltian btaly toward homosexuals, however the most famo persecuted gay Paltian is for sure John Calv, who was raised a pro-Hamas fay the Wt Bank. In his recent blog post, he begs for asylum Canada as they prepare to port him back to the Paltian terrori, where is more than certa that he will suffer the same fate of so many other outed gays that me before him, and had the unlucky fortune to be born to one of the most sadistic societi the world when to their treatment of homosexuals. That’s jt a small be of how Israel treats s homosexual cizens.

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– Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Israel have generally been seen as some of the most advanced the Middle East and Asia. – Tel Aviv has equently been referred to by publishers as one of the most gay iendly ci the world, famo for s annual Pri Para and gay beach, earng the nickname “the gay pal of the Middle East” by Out magaze.

And fally, if you need any further proof on Israelis’ views toward homosexualy, jt take a look at the two lovebirds:. Actually, this is a staged photo, which mak even more ditive of the image Israeli society has of self when to homosexuals. That’s right, those mercils, child-killg, Paltian-blood-drkg soldiers you’ve heard about, went out of their way to support Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri week 2012, and did so by postg this photo on the ver of their Facebook page.

It was staged bee the IDF Spokperson’s Office wanted to portray the most accurate picture of how the IDF views s homosexual soldiers: wh love and pri, as they do every other soldier. (It also bears mentng that the picture is ditive of a culture wh the Israeli Defense Forc that the straight soldier feels fortable enough his masculy, and wh his fellow soldier’s homosexualy, to be seen such a public image holdg hands wh him.

SNAS & CISG GAY ISRAEL

So for those of you who know nothg at all about this nflict, and wish to be jt a ltle more rmed so you n start to form an opn, I ask you to nsir this one fact as Tel Aviv celebrat s annual Gay Pri Ftival this week:. Although Tel Aviv may be where all the actn is (as is the se wh most pursus Israel), ask any gay who liv here, or any gay who’s been here, and they will tell you that Israelis are the most open and welg society the world toward homosexuals.

There are no gay neighborhoods Tel Aviv like there are most other ci, bee there don’t need to be. Homosexuals feel entirely wele and safe to live anywhere they want. Israel and Israelis are not perfect any way, not even the subject of homosexualy.