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. Tax cuts or beg right-wg on the enomy don’t mean misogyny and homophobia.
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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.
You’ll fd about 1, 500 people at the rto monthly events – a mix mostly of transgenr people, gays and lbians, but also heterosexuals. Revelers dance wh ntag joy smoke-filled clubs, to the sound of roarg Mizrahi mic, sgg along to every 's Gay Scene Beyond Tel Aviv Pretty Men and the Shutterbug Who Lik Them But the succs of Arisa n’t measured only by mand for s parti. Its activi crossed the boundari of the nightlife and gay experience long ago and turned to a genue phenomenon.