Israel’s bt gay & gay-iendly bars and fés - The Jesalem Post

Contents:

• GAY ISRAEL
• GAY ISRAEL TRAVEL GUI
• ISRAEL’S BT GAY & GAY-IENDLY BARS AND FéS
• ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH
• THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL

GAY ISRAEL

Avi maoz, head of noam factn relig znism, will brg wh him radil iology bent on blockg expansn of gay rights unr slogan ‘israel choos to be normal’. Out Magaze donned Israel “the gay pal of the Middle East, ” and the untry’s first LGBTQ anizatn, Aguda, opened s doors back 1975. Israel is arguably the most gay-iendly untry on the Asian and Ain ntents, and LGBTQ rights Israel are much better than those found nearby natns.

Even though relign – specifilly Judaism – remas a signifint soc-polil force an creasgly right-leang untry, gay and trans rights Israel are fely better than those found surroundg theocraci and mocraci. Acrdg to the latt Gay Travel Inx by Spartac, Israel sred 7 terms of s overall LGBTQ rights, wh factors cludg antiscrimatn legislatn and non-hostile lols, puttg the untry ahead of other natns such as Atralia, South Ai, and Italy.

GAY ISRAEL TRAVEL GUI

Moreover, horrific episos, cludg a 2009 youth center massacre and a 2015 pri stabbg, have punctuated the problems that gay, lbian, and trans people still face Israel. Its good time smopolan vibe has long attracted gay men, and as a rult, today, Tel Aviv is regard as one of the top gay statns the world.

Instead, LGBTQ life revolv around weekly parti (Party L), and gay-iendly and gay-owned venu are sttered throughout the cy. In most untri, the pal is ually thought to be the most LGBTQ-iendly cy, so the se of Israel, is Jesalem safe for gay and lbian travelers? It is, and the experience is even more enjoyable when you stay at a gay-iendly hotel, vatn rental, or gut hoe – and that’s where misterb&b .

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.

ISRAEL’S BT GAY & GAY-IENDLY BARS AND FéS

If you haven’t yet add Tel Aviv to your travel erary, our Gay Tel Aviv for Begners gui will have you lookg at tickets no time! Weerh ist die gay-ndliche Vio Bar zu empfehlen, die im ssischen Viertel liegt und drei Kneipen umfasst: Hatakl, „Die Platte“, e Ort für Liebhaber alternativer Klänge, HaKaseta, „Die Kassette“, ee hippe Stuntenbar und Raash-Hour, „Das Rad“, e Café m eigener Interradstatn. Israel swore s latt 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 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. Five percent of Israeli lawmakers are now openly gay, the fourth-hight figure the world, acrdg to polil scientist Andrew Reynolds. Openly gay soldiers serve the ary, while Israel regnis same-sex marriag nducted abroad, and gay and lbian upl have surrogacy rights.

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.

ISRAEL IS THE GAYT UNTRY ON EARTH

They s alongsi Rafi Peretz, an Orthodox rabbi who last year endorsed ntroversial therapy to nvert gay people to heterosexualy. Rechtlich sd die vielen Teilen r heterosexuellen Ehe gleichgtellt, so k�nnen Homosexuelle se eem Urteil s Obersten Gerichts im Jahr 2006 Sterprivilegien geltend machen or das Recht r Adoptn Anspch nehmen.

Tel Aviv veranstaltet j�hrlich ee ftliche Gay Pri, Regenbogen-Fahnen sd �berall r Stadt zu sehen und gibt e von r Stadt gef�rrt Gemezentm f�r Homosexuelle. 2005 und 2015 wurn Teilnehmer beim Jesalem Gay Pri verletzt, weil e orthodoxer Ju m eem Mser um sich gtochen hatte � er war erst wenige Wochen vor r zween Attacke 2015 s m Gef�ngnis entlassen worn. 2008 kommentierte e Mglied r ultraorthodoxen Shas Partei im Parlament, dass e Erdbeben Gottstrafe f�r die homosexuelle Aktiv�t sei.

Trotz r verezelten �bergriffe hat sich r Gay Pri Tel Aviv �ber die Jahre hweg zu eem gro�en Event entwickelt, m mtlerweile nd 200. Im Jahr 2011 wur r Gay Pri m anren Prottm�rschen, die die sozialen Bedgungen Israel anprangern, zammengef�hrt, so dass hier r polische Prott wes st�rker zum Adck gebracht wird als Tel Aviv.

THE GAY-FRIENDLIT CI ISRAEL

The High Court of Jtice’s lg on Be’er Sheva’s Gay Pri Para, which nied a petn to overturn a police cisn to change the para’s route, is riddled wh hol. A year after the murr of Shira Banki at the Jesalem Gay Pri Para, the police are tellg that they n’t protect marchers and a march should be rerouted.

Th, while the prime mister, his speech abroad, ntu to tout the fact that Israel holds Gay Pri paras and has a vibrant LGBT muny, the murrer Yishai Schlissel has won and Shira Banki has been murred aga.

Still, as we learned our stggle to hold a Gay Pri Para Jesalem, and to borrow om the Jewish partisans’ song, “Our march will thunr on, we are here. Dtsch met, dass man zwar viel erreicht habe, das Ziel eer offenen Gellschaft m gleichen Rechten für Homo- wie Heterosexuelle aber noch fern sei. 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 world.