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THE GAY ORTHODOX UNRGROUND
And now I'm gettg all the DMs om queer Jewish people, bisexual people, gay men, sometim askg me advice on how to e out or sayg that I am makg them feel heard and reprented and accepted. It is impossible to get an accurate number of gay Orthodox Jews. There is no official membership, and only a handful of people are willg to put their nam on support-group Ashkazy, a gay-rights activist and Orthodox Jew who liv New York Cy, says he has spoken wh over 200 gay Orthodox Jews over the past few years.
Filmmaker Sandi DuBowski, who produced and directed Tremblg Before G-d, terviewed hundreds of gay um (observant) Jews over the past few years for his movie. And those volved gay muny outreach say there are many more out there. Open and Secret Support Groups In the New York area, home to the largt ncentratn of gay Orthodox Jews, at least four support groups have spng up to meet their needs.
"Every gay um Jew who fds out about [the support works] says, ‘I thought I was the only one. ’" The three founrs of the Gay and Lbian Yhiva Day School Alumni Associatn chose that name specifilly to attract a gay group wh an Orthodox background. "I had told one person I was [gay], " he says.