Wele to Tel Aviv, the gayt cy on earth - The Boston Globe

Contents:

• THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL
• IS TEL AVIV THE GAY PAL OF THE WORLD?
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• IS TEL AVIV REALLY THE GAYT CY ON THE PLA?
• WELE TO TEL AVIV, THE GAYT CY ON EARTH

THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL

“A ltle more than three years ago, we moved here om Netanya, and we found a void wh regard to everythg nnected to the gay muny, ” says Ma’ayan Gilad, the LGBTQ muny ordator for Harish and the nearby town of Byama-Givat Ada.

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I don’t claim that there isn’t homophobia and that everythg is rosy. For many years, we didn’t manage to pass almost any legislatn, didn’t manage to make progrs on the natnal polil level, and we realized that the natnal learship wasn’t reflectg the posns that the Israeli public had regardg the gay muny. “In a lot of surveys, we have been seeg a posive public posn toward , like the matters of gay parentg and the fight agast LGBTQ-hatred, ” he ntu.

IS TEL AVIV THE GAY PAL OF THE WORLD?

We unrstood that was a pot that many stanc mobiliz the gay muny and begs to velop a lol activist muny that creat change. Even municipal ernments that didn’t receive fundg om have referred to the event as an event of tolerance for the gay muny and have been fundg – such as Ramat Gan and Ra’anana.

” A racism-homophobia bo Atara Assi, 24, has lived Afula for five years. She arrived the cy as part of natnal service at the Israel Gay Youth anizatn, livg a mune wh a group of LGBTQ people and volunteered at a lol elementary school. The cy is pable of cludg the gay muny.

” Sometim I found hard at jobs town, a racism-homophobia bo and such.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

“We’ve reached very homogeno muni, such as the settlement of Eat, ” says Cohen.

” Thoands of people marchg the cy of Haifa durg the Gay Pri Para on June 22, Rami Shllh‘The solutn to vlence is the tn of young people’ The rults of a survey of the needs of the LGBTQ muny Byama-Givat Ada were released this week. Acrdg to Gilad, Byama-Givat Ada, like Harish, has a gay muny, but there was no agency to lk between people. The first is addrsed to the gay muny, askg for the gree of satisfactn they feel wh prent ndns and what they would like to receive as part of the servic provid to their muny.

The story of the gay muny here began four years ago as a social activy, wh a place for people to meet, culmatg a Gay Pri event Sha’ar Hanegev last summer. Harel Eliyahu Hershkovz“The uncil has grown a lot and has bee heterogeneo, and among the newers are gay fai. Nearly every town or muny has at least one gay uple, if not more.

IS TEL AVIV REALLY THE GAYT CY ON THE PLA?

We are marchg hand hand wh the lol muny orr to make progrs and provi better-sued servic, such as changg official forms so they clu ‘Parent 1, Parent 2, ’ postg Gay Pri signs at central tersectns the uncil’s jurisdictn and at the uncil buildg durg Gay Pri Month, urgg uncil lears to attend our events, and teachg all krgarten teachers the area about different typ of fai on the LGBTQ spectm. “I haven’t enuntered homophobia, but I also haven’t seen a same-sex uple walkg down the street holdg hands.

WELE TO TEL AVIV, THE GAYT CY ON EARTH

“Tel Aviv is very important for the gay muny, offers many opportuni and possibili, and most gay people see themselv growg and raisg fai the metropolan Tel Aviv area.

Attractg a specific part of the muny In south Tel Aviv’s Neve Sha’anan neighborhood, people are tryg to build an LGBTQ muny; more specifilly, a gay male one. Gadi Tun, who liv there wh his partner and their baby dghter, is one of the stigators of “New Sha’anan, ” an iative seekg to turn the neighborhood to Tel Aviv’s gay quarter. “Our iative is tryg to nsolidate an already existg trend, formalizg the flow of gay people om the center to this neighborhood.