Amir Ohana, Likud’s first openly gay Knset member, terviewed.

Contents:

• ISRAEL REACH RERD NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY LAWMAKERS
• LIKUD’S AMIR OHANA BE ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET SPEAKER
• ISRAEL SETS RERD FOR NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY MKS
• ISRAEL NAM FIRST GAY SPEAKER – BUT NEW ERNMENT CLUS ANTI-LGBTQ+ MISTERS
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• ISRAELIS POISED FOR THEIR GAYT PARLIAMENT YET
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
• ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY LIKUD LAWMAKER ON BEG A COALN WH ANTI-GAY PARTI
• WHAM!’S ANDREW RIDGELEY: ‘GEE MICHAEL THOUGHT MIGHT HURT IF HE ME OUT AS GAY AND I ENURAGED HIM NOT TO SAY ANYTHG’
• SILVAN SHALOM’S REPLACEMENT TO BE LIKUD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET MEMBER
• WHO R WHO’S GAY THE KNSET?
• ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY LIKUD LAWMAKER ON BEG A COALN WH ANTI-GAY PARTI
• SILVAN SHALOM’S REPLACEMENT TO BE LIKUD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET MEMBER

ISRAEL REACH RERD NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY LAWMAKERS

Israel swore another openly gay lawmaker on Monday, markg a rerd for the untry nsired a regnal pneer on LGBT rights, spe opposn om relig nservativ. Yorai Lahav-Hertzano om the opposn Yh Atid-Telem alliance beme the latt polician to jo the 120-seat Knset, brgg to six the number of openly gay lawmakers. Five percent of Israeli lawmakers are now openly gay, the fourth-hight figure the world, acrdg to polil scientist Andrew Reynolds.

LIKUD’S AMIR OHANA BE ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET SPEAKER

Openly gay soldiers serve the ary, while Israel regniz same-sex marriag nducted abroad, and gay and lbian upl have surrogacy rights.

First openly gay mister.

While Tel Aviv’s Gay Pri para ually draws huge crowds om around the world, the equivalent march nservative Jesalem is held unr a heavy police prence. Participants the annual Jesalem Gay Pri para place flowers at a memorial for Shira Banki, who was murred durg the para 2015, on June 6, 2019. Annual Gay Pri events both ci have been nceled this month due to the ronavis panmic.

ISRAEL SETS RERD FOR NUMBER OF OPENLY GAY MKS

The day before last year’s para, Netanyahu appoted Israel’s first openly gay mister. Left-wg polician Itzik Shmuli, who is openly gay, also joed the ernment ranks, as mister for social affairs. They s alongsi Rafi Peretz, an Orthodox rabbi, who last year endorsed ntroversial therapy to nvert gay people to heterosexualy.

A former mister past ernments, Ohana is the Knset’s first openly gay person to hold the role.

Ohana has prevly served as jtice mister and public secury mister, wh his elevatn to the former post 2019 makg him Israel’s first openly gay mister. Several of Likud’s far-right and ultra-Orthodox partners have exprsed homophobic posns, cludg returng now-banned nversn therapy, changg ernmental forms to say “mother” and “father” stead of the genr-ntral “parent, ” and nng on the platform of a “normal fay, ” the se of the openly anti-LGBTQ Noam party.

ISRAEL NAM FIRST GAY SPEAKER – BUT NEW ERNMENT CLUS ANTI-LGBTQ+ MISTERS

Uned Torah Judaism MKs Yzhak Goldknopf and Meir Posh, a mister and puty mister, rpectively, the new ernment, avert their gaze as Amir Ohana MK, who is gay, mak his first speech as Knset speaker, December 29, 2022 (Screenshot om footage by Ari Kelman, BeHadrei Hadarim, broadst on Channel 12; ed acrdance wh clse 27a of the Copyright Law).

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

Ahead of the vote for speaker, Maoz asserted that recent reports about his party drawg up lists of gay media profsnals and “leftist” Jtice Mistry staff were no more than an attempt by the media to “fame, monize and shame” him.

ISRAELIS POISED FOR THEIR GAYT PARLIAMENT YET

REVELERS DIP the Mederranean Sea as they take part a Gay Pri para Tel Aviv last year. On Friday, Israel set the rerd for hight amount of openly gay MKs the 23rd Knset, wh six members of the LGBT muny, while the prev rerd was Secury Mister Amir Ohana set the rerd for beg the first gay mister Israel 2019 after he was appoted as the jtice mister by Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu.

Other than Ohana, the other 5 gay MKs are Meretz lear Nzan Horowz, Labor MK Itzik Shmuli, Blue and Whe MKs Idan Roll and former Ra’anana mayor Ean Gzburg, and Yh Atid-Telem MK Yorai Lahav rerd was ma possible after Blue and Whe sred a polil victory overnight Monday night when succeed passg the Expand Norwegian Law the Knset plenum by a vote of 67 to law would enable five misters or puty misters Blue and Whe and two other aln parti to qu the Knset and be replaced by the next ndidat on their parti' such, on Wednday, four Blue and Whe misters filed their rignatn to Knset Speaker Yariv Lev, wh their rignatn and the entry of four new MKs g to effect on, Lahav Hertzanu managed to secure a spot the 23rd Knset, beg the sixth openly gay MK and settg the new rerd. The Israeli legislature has elected Amir Ohana as s first out gay speaker as a number of anti-LGBTQ+ policians are ma bet members.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

Among the appotments to the new bet is Avi Maoz, lear of the homophobic Noam party, which has prevly lked gay people wh child traffickg and pared LGBTQ+ advot to Nazis. Dpe public pledg that LGBTQ+ protectns would not be threatened, the aln agreements outle rollbacks on discrimatn laws that uld allow goods and service provirs to refe servg people based on relig belief, possibly allowg for homophobic discrimatn. The Red Le for Hate monstratn, anised by LGBTQ+ activists Israel, protted anti-LGBTQ+ lawmakers the ernment and legislature, chantg “We are here and everywhere” and “Homophobia starts the ernment offic”.

Last week was revealed that Maoz had nstcted lists of gay media profsnals and “leftist” Jtice Mistry staff. (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.

ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY LIKUD LAWMAKER ON BEG A COALN WH ANTI-GAY PARTI

“You have at least an tentn to legislate laws that are dire for the gay muny.

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.

WHAM!’S ANDREW RIDGELEY: ‘GEE MICHAEL THOUGHT MIGHT HURT IF HE ME OUT AS GAY AND I ENURAGED HIM NOT TO SAY ANYTHG’

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. “A Sephardi or a tradnal Jew, do you thk he r about gays?

SILVAN SHALOM’S REPLACEMENT TO BE LIKUD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET MEMBER

“I’m a fascist homophobe, but I’m a man of my word, ” he said. “I won’t stone gays. 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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WHO R WHO’S GAY THE KNSET?

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ISRAEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY LIKUD LAWMAKER ON BEG A COALN WH ANTI-GAY PARTI

Rights groups have warned of growg tolerance agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr vios posted on social media late on Friday, Matty Healy, the band’s ontman, was seen kissg the bassist, Ross MacDonald, after cricizg Malaysia’s stance agast homosexualy a profany-lan speech to the ftival dience. Healy had faced cricism for kissg a male fan at a 2019 ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also has laws agast homosexual acts, acrdg to news media ftival’s anizer, Future Sound Asia, apologized for the show’s ncellatn after Mr. Among the few thgs is safe to predict about Israel’s next Knset is that will have a rerd number of openly gay members — possibly more than double the number the outgog Knset, which at barely two (sce one only me out midway through the term) was self a rerd.

SILVAN SHALOM’S REPLACEMENT TO BE LIKUD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY KNSET MEMBER

The cumbents are Itzik Shmuli, a lear of the summer 2011 social prott movement who placed first the recent Labor party primary (and “me out” while servg his send term the Knset); and Amir Ohana, a Likud member who is the first openly gay right-wger to serve the Knset.