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• JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
• MODI ROSENFELD, GAY JEWISH COMEDIAN, TALKS ‘MOSHIACH’ ENERGY, CELEBRATG SHABBAT AND COMPARISONS TO ROB WILLIAMS AND RICHARD PRYOR
• MODI IS GAY
• JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD SAYS HE HAS ORTHODOX FANS AFTER OPENG UP ABOUT BEG GAY
• MODI IS GAY: #3 PROOF
• IS MODI GAY?

JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?

The pair talk about livg and travelg together, and a recent episo revealed they would be vatng on Fire Island, which has a famo gay scene, wh proment gay Jewish okbook thor Jake Cohen. And they don’t need gay material — they need the material for this dience.

The Variety article was born of Rosenfeld’s epeng belief that ’s possible to merge his Orthodox and gay inti more publicly — somethg that he has long done as a ngregant and sometim-ntor at the Morn Orthodox synagogue he attends the East Village.

And somehow, gays have been attracted to e to this synagogue, ” he said.

MODI ROSENFELD, GAY JEWISH COMEDIAN, TALKS ‘MOSHIACH’ ENERGY, CELEBRATG SHABBAT AND COMPARISONS TO ROB WILLIAMS AND RICHARD PRYOR

“We have a whole group of gay people and we have a whole group of trans people wele.

For Rosenfeld, there’s no tensn between Jewish observance and beg gay — although his articulatn of why reveals an awarens of the pa that others might feel tryg. “Beg gay, you n keep Shabbos, you n keep kosher, you n keep anythg you want to do, ” he said.

When Rosenfeld shared the Variety article on his Instagram page, the vast majory of the nearly 800 ments left by fans and iends showed support for his public embrace of his gay inty. “It’s amazg that you announce that you are gay, ” one fan wrote.

MODI IS GAY

“You are an example to all the Jews stgglg wh their gayns. “I n’t believe you are gay, ” wrote one person. Sce he has started addg gay material to his repertoire, his dienc have been creasgly LGBTQ, like at some of the “Holidazed” shows he performed December at Sony Hall New York.

Still, he noted, “onstage, I’m more Jewish than I am gay. They also said they were surprised by how weled they felt as a gay uple at a Republin event, and remarked on how many of the polil figur and donors they met were exced to show them pictur of all the other gay upl they knew. Schneerson nsired homosexualy a s and advoted for Jews to choose not to yield to homosexual urg.

“Some people will see this as a kd of affirmative step that you don’t have to abandon your relig inty bee you’re gay. When Solicor General of India Thar Mehta said that regnn to same-sex marriage would have an impact on a statute like the one for adoptn, CJI Chandrachud rpond by sayg that was not necsary that a child adopted by a homosexual uple would be a homosexual. On September 6, 2018, the SC had crimalised nsensual gay sex between adults though clarified that the verdict should not be nsted as nferrg any right, cludg the right to marry.

JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD SAYS HE HAS ORTHODOX FANS AFTER OPENG UP ABOUT BEG GAY

So, homosexual upl currently do not have a right to legally marry India. CJI Chandrachud was part of the nstutn bench that crimalised gay sex 2018. One of the petns argu that the 2018 judgment also upheld a gay dividual’s right to fay and choice of partners.

The urt, while crimalisg homosexualy, had never accepted same-sex marriage as part of the fundamental right to life and digny unr Article 21 of the Constutn. In a survey nducted by the Pew Rearch Center across 34 untri between May 13 and October 2, 2019, only 37 per cent of rponnts om India said that homosexualy should be accepted by society.

India's top urt crimalised homosexualy a historic verdict 2018 by scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay sex, followg years of activism and latt se is seen as an important tone the velopment of LGBT rights India, home to 1. The issue is still highly sensive: speakg openly about homosexualy is still taboo for many the socially nservative least 15 pleas, some by gay upl, askg the urt to regnise same-sex marriag have been filed recent months, settg the stage for this legal face-off wh Prime Mister Narendra Modi's ernment. Sgapore last year end a ban on gay sex but took steps to bar same-sex is the only untry among the Group of Seven (G7) natns that do not legally regnise same-sex unns, although the public broadly favours India, the issue has fuelled tensns the media and parliament, where a member of Modi's lg Hdu natnalist party December asked the ernment to strongly oppose the petns filed the top activists argue that while the 2018 lg affirmed their nstutnal rights, is unjt that they still miss out on legal backg for their marriag - a basic right enjoyed by heterosexual married upl.

MODI IS GAY: #3 PROOF

He’s gay. He keeps kosher and he puts on tefill and he go to Shabbat servic – but he is also gay, ” says Rosenfeld, who creds his hband-manager, Leo Veiga, wh helpg to sprgboard his reer the past several years. Part of that Moshiach energy is enuragg gay Jewish dividuals, pecially those om strict Orthodox backgrounds which g out as gay is often an alienatg experience ght wh tensn and anxiety, to forever rema proud of who they are.

“I want a gay kid listeng to me or readg this, a kid om, say, an Orthodox Jewish fay, to know that you n still keep Shabbat and you n still be gay and you n still be happy and brg Moshiach energy to the world, ” says Rosenfeld. It should not be, gus what, he’s gay. “People should unrstand this ic that you love, this ic that you adore and that you’re hirg for events and meos and performanc – he’s gay.

March 30, 2011 -- Was Mahatma Gandhi gay?

IS MODI GAY?

In a bgraphy that h stor this week -- "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Stggle Wh India, " former New York Tim reporter Lelyveld sists that Gandhi was gay, or at least lover was Hermann Kallenbach, a German-Jewish archect and bodybuilr. ""And if he's a god, how n he be homosexual? "The Hdu relign, jt as Christiany, owns upon homosexualy, acrdg to Chakrabarty, who has wrten several books about Gandhi.

But India today, discrimatn agast gays is illegal and many are open about their sexual Levyveld's book, the lovers' nicknam to each other were "Upper Hoe" and "Lower Hoe, " suggtg one may have been a stronger posn of book says Gandhi may have been the one to "thk ep thoughts" and Kallenbach was more preoccupied wh "matters of physil fns and everythg that's down to earth. Modi is Gay.

We are 21st century where every dividual have a lot of eedom to exercise, but the most recent addn to the humongo list is the ‘GAY RIGHT’ y we’re talkg about समलैंगिकता, and the person qutn is none other than NARENDRA MODI! Stg onstage at a edy club filled mostly wh his target dience of Orthodox Jews, edian Modi Rosenfeld said that he’s still bookg gigs at plenty of Orthodox synagogu — even after openg up about beg gay.