Israel Reach Rerd 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 * gay men of israel *

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While filmg was still unrway, even before Men of Israel beme one of the most profable gay-porn featur, he was signed on for two more porn producer and fervent Znist Michael Lus, who employed Agassi pornographic REUTERSThat’s when the name "Jonathan Agassi" was born, an alter ego that he scrib the current movie as a superhero, a character who helps him, who's always on his si.

Over 500 gay Jews (and those who love them) partied the night away at Serlic, the Passover Party, prented by saw Pharoah and Mos rne and drk MAN-ischewz all night long on Saturday at New York's Hudson Terrace. 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.

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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.

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. 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. Th, the opposn of relig parti to gay rights has engenred the oppose reactn among non-relig Revolutn BegsThe mastream path started to grate on some gay and lbian Israelis the late 1990s. Prevly, the Israeli gay movement had shunned transgenred people, fearg what their cln would do to s public image, but wh Dana receivg ngratulatory telegrams om the Prime Mister and beg ma an honorary ambassador by the Knset, was now “safe” for the movement to expand s November of that year, Michal En won a seat the Tel Aviv Cy Council, beg Israel’s first openly lbian elected official.

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In such a polil environment, gays and lbians uld have their own elected polil voice as well, although such reprentatn do not yet exist at the natnal level. The Israeli LGBT movement has not embraced femism ( fact, sexism and tensns between gay men and lbians are both que prevalent), and until recently, the place of gay Arabs the muny was neglected, reflectg the wir society’s difference to Israel’s Arab mory (some 20 percent of Israel’s populatn). Agast the backdrop of clash between Israel and the Paltian Authory, the 2001 Tel Aviv’s Pri Para, typilly a celebratory, hedonistic affair, got a dose of polics when a ntgent lled “Gays Black” marched wh a banner proclaimg, “There’s No Pri In Occupatn.

” A group lled “Kvisa Sh’hora” (Dirty Lndry) also spng up, lkg the opprsn of sexual mori to what se as the Israeli opprsn of the PriThe holdg of World Pri Jesalem Augt 2006 highlights the succs and challeng of Israel’s gay and lbian muny.

The succs are many: 1) the growth of viable muni outsi of Tel Aviv, symbolized by the Jesalem muny’s hostg of World Pri, an ternatnal gay pri event; ntued legal succs, pecially wh rpect to uple’s rights; and broad cultural visibily.

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But before the para had to be ncelled bee of regnal tensns, was shapg up as a stggle between Israel’s relig tablishment and the gay and lbian Jesalem municipaly and a verable alliance of relig lears uned only their opposn to homosexualy were termed to thwart the holdg of the para. They claimed that homosexualy so ntradicted the teachgs of all three of the monotheistic fahs that a para for acceptance and equaly of the GLBT muny would forever sta the holy cy.

ISRAELI MEN BARE THEIR SOULS—AND THEIR BODI—IN LATT ISSUE OF GAY TRAVEL MAGAZE"JEWS WERE SPREADG THE WORD TO ARAB IENDS, ARABS WERE TRODUCG TO THEIR RSIAN IENDS." 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JEWS WERE SPREADG THE WORD TO THEIR ARAB IENDS, ARABS WERE TRODUCG TO THEIR RSIAN IENDS, AND EVERYONE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SHOW THE MULTICULTURALISM THAT THE PEOPLE OF HAIFA ARE SO PROUD OF."LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT'S NOT TO SUGGT THE MAGAZE WHEWASH ISSU FACED BY DIFFERENT MUNI, CLUDG RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND RELIG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THERE ARE NATURALLY SIGNS THAT LIFE IS NOT PERFECT," CAMPBELL SAYS. "HOWEVER, HAIFA SEEMS TO SET A BETTER EXAMPLE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE ISRAEL OF HOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO LIVE TOGETHER, NOT JT BY TOLERATG EACH OTHER BUT BY LOVG EACH OTHER. THE MEN YOU MEET ELSKA HAIFA DO SHOW SOME OF THEIR PA, BUT THEY SHARE THEIR HOPE, AS WELL."LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELSKA'S HAIFA ISSUE IS AVAILABLE A 164-PAGE PRT VERSN OR FOR DOWNLOAD. A PANN E-ZE, ELSKA EKSTRA HAIFA , OFFERS OUTTAK, BEHD-THE-SCEN TAL AND MORE PROFIL.LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Even many secular Israelis normally supportive of the Israeli GLBT muny viewed holdg an ternatnal gay pri para Jesalem as an unnecsary provotn, showg jt how succsful Israel’s relig tablishment has been shapg a gree of obedience to s sensivi. See, Lus is a former porn actor who now ns Lus Entertament, a top gay porn productn pany, whose new film, ‘Men of Israel, ’ available now vio stor, is beg billed as a landmark productn, beg the first gay porn film to feature an all-Israeli st.

FOR THE RECORD:This post, which was published prt on July 27, scrib Michael Lus of New York-based Lus Entertament as a former porn actor whose pany produc gay porn. But acrdg to this report om Tablet magaze, which offers smart, inoclastic verage of Jewish arts, polics and culture, the real breakthrough for the film is that ’s the first gay porn movie to feature an all-Jewish st. Cohen manag to stay relatively anonymo Tel Aviv, but Manhattan’s Chelsea or Madrid’s Chue neighborhoods, would be impossible to fd someone who did not know exactly who he was — the most famo gay Israeli in of recent years.

Tvada as Preventative for HIV Lol Gays Make the List The Ultimate Gui for Tel Aviv's Pri Week Ever sce he appeared three years ago on the ver of Spartac, the bible of gay tourism, Cohen has been a sought-after mol.

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He is also the owner of the PAPA party le that has been succsful dozens of ci all over the world, the -owner of Gay-ville, a gay vatn rental service, a star of gay-themed YouTube vios — and the fantasy of lns of men. ” Cohen is the extreme embodiment of the ntemporary Israeli gay man: He liv eely and openly, striv for succs and self-actualizatn and mak no apology for his masculy or days, Cohen is lnchg a llectn that bears his name wh the Atralian brand BCNÜ and an onle store wh PAPA merchandise. Yorai Lahav Hertzanu om the centrist Blue and Whe alliance beme the latt polician to jo the 120-seat Knset, brgg to six the number of openly gay lawmakers.

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. So should e as no surprise that Israel’s pal of ol, Tel Aviv, where 25% of the populatn is timated to be LGBT, has gaed an ternatnal reputatn as one of the world’s top statns for gay men. One reason gay nightlife Tel Aviv is so excg is that the Tel Aviv gay scene revolv around weekly parti, rather than specific bars or clubs like most ci around the isn’t to say that certa gay bars Tel Aviv aren’t extremely popular.

They boast crystal clear waters, whe sands, and an astoundg number of attractive people soakg up the you’ll be wele at nearly every beach Tel Aviv, there is an unofficial gay beach: Hilton Beach.

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Simply head north on Dizengoff Street until you h Jabotsky Street, then take a left and walk down to the Aviv Gay PriTel Aviv hosts the only public gay pri para the entire Middle East.

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