Thoands nverge Jesalem for annual gay pri para - The Jesalem Post

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• GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH
• GAY PRI PARA SET TO MARCH THROUGH JESALEM LATER TODAY
• THOANDS NVERGE JESALEM FOR ANNUAL GAY PRI PARA

GAY RIGHTS: JESALEM CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF PRI MARCH

JERUSALEM -- Thoands of people on Thursday marched Jesalem's Pri para — an annual event that took place for the first time unr Israel’s new far-right ernment, which is stacked wh openly homophobic march the nservative cy is always tense and tightly secured by police, and has been wracked by vlence the past. Jesalem's march is typilly more subdued than the one gay-iendly Tel Aviv, where tens of thoands of revelers pour to the streets for a massive, multilored party. ”Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu's ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti who openly oppose homosexualy, although the Israeli lear has promised to protect LGBTQ+ rights and a member of his party who is gay is the Knset speaker.

The untry's Fance Mister Bezalel Smotrich has the past clared he was a “proud homophobe. "There are people who are very much homophobic and very much transphobic who are the ernment today and hold posns of power and budget and are workg agast actually right now, ” she rried a flag that read: “There is no pri whout mocracy. At the para 2015, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli man stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to ath and wound several is generally tolerant toward the LGBTQ+ muny, a rary the nservative Middle East, where homosexualy is wily nsired taboo and is outlawed some plac.

GAY PRI PARA SET TO MARCH THROUGH JESALEM LATER TODAY

Members of the LGBTQ+ muny serve openly Israel’s ary and parliament, and many popular artists and entertaers are openly gay.

Jewish ultra-Orthodox parti, which wield signifint fluence over matters of relign and state, oppose homosexualy as a vlatn of relig law, as do other relig groups nservative make-up of Netanyahu's ernment sparked new fears the LGBTQ+ muny, which had seen gas unr the prev, short-lived admistratn led by Netanyahu's rivals. I was shocked to the pths of my soul by this wild cement, by the famatn agast the gay muny, the profani, and the ath threats, " said Knset speaker add that he me to the march to "stand up agast this evil spir and say clearly and unequivolly as the Speaker of the Knset that reprents the entire public Israel: LGBTQ people are equal cizens and serve full and equal rights. "Horowz poted to reforms ma surrogacy to allow same-sex upl and sgle fathers to have children through the procs, regulatns issued agast nversn therapy and the approval of allowg gay men to donate blood.

THOANDS NVERGE JESALEM FOR ANNUAL GAY PRI PARA

"Itamar Ben-Gvir prottg the Jesalem gay pri para, 2009. The sign to his right lls marchers 'sick perverts'Cred: Ts ScheflanAs past years, there have been real threats agast , most recently reported by the watchdog group Fake Reporter, which intified cement and vlent threats agast the marchers on social media, wh posts exprsg the wish that participants “die om gunfire” or get shot or group makg the threats is affiliated wh Lehava, which aniz a yearly unterprott agast the para which activists stand as close to the para as they are permted by police, shout slurs at the marchers and acce them of rptg children and filg opposn peaked 2005, when Smotrich, then a young right-wg activist, and Lehava-affiliated Ben-Gvir joed forc wh others to anize a "beast para" ahead of the event, placg farm animals along the route, orr to illtrate the parallel between homosexualy and btialy.