Israel set to lnch 2023 Gay Pri Month

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• ISRAEL SET TO LNCH 2023 GAY PRI MONTH
• GAY ISRAEL
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• DIRTY DICKSONE OF THE OLST GAY CISE BAR AMSTERDAM WH A REPUTATN FOR FAMO PARTI.AMSTERDAMMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSDRAG SHOWSLBIAN BARSSNASRTRANTSSHOPSGYMSSERVICTOURSMASSAGECY GUIGAY MAPNETHERLANDS EVENTSDIRTY DICKS

ISRAEL SET TO LNCH 2023 GAY PRI MONTH

Organizers expect Jesalem Gay Pri Para to be the largt ever; claim the importance of the annual event this year while rights are unr threat om the ernment and vlence agast LGBTQ+ members on the riseIsrael is set to Lnch Gay Pri Month on Thursday, wh a rerd-breakg 100 events planned around the untry and paras will take place where they had not before. 2 View gallery A protter holds an Israeli and rabow flag durg a monstratn outsi the Tel Aviv rabbate(Photo: Nadav Av)This year the LGBTQ+ muny's rights are unr threat om the most right-wg and relig ernment the untry's history cludg the prence of homophobic puty mister Avi Maoz who has brand LGBTQ as viants. "Gay pri events are seen as a prott and ll for equal rights, personal secury and the advancement of tolerance Israeli society, " the LGBTQ+ associatn said a statement.

On the year when our rights and eedoms are unr threat om the ernment, the gay muny will monstrate, prott and celebrate our culture, inty and love wh pri, " she said.

GAY ISRAEL

Many of the achievements of the past year are danger and the polil climate has already ed vlence towards members of the gay muny, and an crease lls to psychologil and emotnal hotl, " activist and chairman of Jesalem's Open Hoe for Pri and Tolerance Jonathan Valfer said. Participants the Tel Aviv Pri Para, on Tomer AppelbmParticipants take part an annual Gay Pri para Tel Aviv on ILAN ROSENBERG/ REUTERSTel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and Deputy Mayor Meal Lehavi stood atop the municipaly's Gay Center tck as the para began, which was followed by 8 tcks wh dancers and DJs. Enjoy!, " Huldai said durg the groups leadg the judicial overhl protts have also joed wh the gay muny anizatns leadg the Pri Para unr a unified msage sayg: "There is no pri whout mocracy, " due to ncerns that the judicial reforms will harm LGBTQ rights and will weaken the High Court that has granted the gay muny rights and take part an annual Gay Pri para Tel Aviv on SHIR TOREM/ REUTERSHila Peer, chairwoman of the umbrella group, the Aguda Associatn for LGBTQ Equaly Israel, said that "This year's Pri Para is the most prott-oriented one we have had years.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

Instead, chang the valu and polics of Israeli society over the past twenty years or so created the space which a gay and lbian muny uld first gay anizatn was tablished 1975, thanks largely to the work of immigrants om the Uned Stat and other English-speakg untri fluenced by the velopment of gay liberatn and the unterculture of the 1960s. The very name of this first anizatn, the Society for the Protectn of Personal Rights (then, as today, known as the Agudah, Hebrew), reflected the difficulty of anizg sexual mori at a time when the existence of a sodomy law was thought by many to make homosexualy self illegal.

But for many years, Israeli lbians funneled most of their energi to femism, rather than the stggle for gay and lbian velopment of a gay inty was difficult for many at a time when Israeli society was still the midst of s Znist revolutn. Pleadg more prsg issu, the public agenda did not clu the place of mizrahim (Jews who immigrated to Israel om the Arab untri) a society domated by European-born Jews, women’s liberatn, equaly for Paltian cizens of Israel, or gay rights. The certati of Znism gave way to a multu of polil and cultural inti: ultra-orthodox Judaism, growg assertn of a Paltian inty among Israel’s Arab cizens, natnalism, and yearngs for a more Wtern, liberal society peted for the allegiance of, gay inty and polics still did not go public.

So fell on non-gay supporters of gay rights to move thgs the late 1980’s, the efforts began to pay off, layg a road map for future gay polil succs.

DIRTY DICKSONE OF THE OLST GAY CISE BAR AMSTERDAM WH A REPUTATN FOR FAMO PARTI.AMSTERDAMMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSDRAG SHOWSLBIAN BARSSNASRTRANTSSHOPSGYMSSERVICTOURSMASSAGECY GUIGAY MAPNETHERLANDS EVENTSDIRTY DICKS

This pattern of dog thgs quietly, even unr the table, would repeat next few years marked the goln age of gay polil succs Israel. By 1992, lbian and gay activists had succeed gettg the Knset to amend Israel’s Equal Workplace Opportuni Law to outlaw discrimatn on the basis of sexual 1993, the Israeli ary rcd s few regulatns discrimatg agast gays and lbians. And 1994, the Israeli Supreme Court orred El Al Israel Airl to grant a ee plane ticket to the partner of a gay flight attendant, as the airle had long done for heterosexual partners of then, there has been steady progrs, pecially the urts.

Mastream SuccsThe reasons for gay and lbian polil succs durg this perd om 1988 through the mid-1990s were many. Chief among them was the fact that gay activists pursued a very mastream strategy, seekg to nvce the wir public that gay Israelis were good patrtic cizens who jt happened to be attracted to the same strategy, pursued until recently, rerced the perceptn that gay rights was a non-partisan issue, unnnected to the major fissure Israeli polics, the Arab-Israeli nflict and how to rolve . Embracg gay rights enabled Israelis to pat themselv on the back for beg open-md, even as Israeli society wrtled ls succsfully wh other social equali.

Another reason for succs was that the only source of real opposn to gay rights Israel stems om the untry’s relig parti.