The Gay Communy? ‘Obssed Wh the Gym’ Straight Audienc? ‘They Would Listen More if I Were to Sg to a Woman’ And Right-wg Policians? ‘A Vlent Collectn of Parti’ Meet the Colorful Tom Schneid
Contents:
- MIZRAHI, GAY AND PROUD – THE TEAM BEHD ISRAEL'S PK PANTHERS’ REVOLUTN
- IRAN’S QUEEN OF POP IS A GAY IN
MIZRAHI, GAY AND PROUD – THE TEAM BEHD ISRAEL'S PK PANTHERS’ REVOLUTN
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In one of the first songs he released, “Gever” (“Man”), Schneid rponds to society’s belief that he n’t be both manly and gay. Although the words of the song are about a man to whom Schneid says, “You don’t want to be on my list / A blacklist like my soul, ” the mic vio he ns for the Knset, kiss the picture of Relig Znism Chairman Bezalel Smotrich, who is proudly homophobic, and wav a parody the famo “LGBTistan” ver of Channel 14’s magaze. It’s like the old tnt, ‘you homo’ – today, ’s ‘you leftist.
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IRAN’S QUEEN OF POP IS A GAY IN
” “There are lot of wild thgs the gay muny that I talk about, ” he says. “Many of the thgs serve the hyper-gay image that I’m tryg to nvey outsi the muny.
I feel that I n brg hot dancers and still say ‘gay guys are obssed wh the gym, ’ and that’s not a ntradictn.
“It’s te that I’m a Tel Aviv gay person, but I thk that everyone n nnect to the subject of ‘Twk’ – who is young, sirable, maybe a snob, a kd of ial of young bety. It’s hard to exaggerate the succs of Arisa, whose Middle Eastern-themed gay parti began five and a half years ago Tel Aviv.