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- GAY PRI PARA SET TO MARCH THROUGH JESALEM LATER TODAY
- ISRAEL’S GAY PRI PARAS REVEAL JT HOW FAR THE NATN HAS STRAYED OM S BIBLIL FOUNDATNS
GAY PRI PARA SET TO MARCH THROUGH JESALEM LATER TODAY
Thoands are expected today Jesalem for the cy’s annual — and ght — Gay Pri Para, set to beg at 1 p.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thoands of people on Thursday marched Jesalem’s Pri para — an annual event that took place for the first time unr Israel’s new far-right ernment, which is stacked wh openly homophobic march the nservative cy is always tense and tightly secured by police, and has been wracked by vlence the past. Jesalem’s march is typilly more subdued than the one gay-iendly Tel Aviv, where tens of thoands of revelers pour to the streets for a massive, multilored party. Prime Mister Benjam Netanyahu’s ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti who openly oppose homosexualy, although the Israeli lear has promised to protect LGBTQ+ rights and a member of his party who is gay is the Knset speaker.
The untry’s Fance Mister Bezalel Smotrich has the past clared he was a “proud homophobe. “There are people who are very much homophobic and very much transphobic who are the ernment today and hold posns of power and budget and are workg agast actually right now, ” she rried a flag that read: “There is no pri whout mocracy. At the para 2015, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli man stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to ath and wound several is generally tolerant toward the LGBTQ+ muny, a rary the nservative Middle East, where homosexualy is wily nsired taboo and is outlawed some plac.
ISRAEL’S GAY PRI PARAS REVEAL JT HOW FAR THE NATN HAS STRAYED OM S BIBLIL FOUNDATNS
Members of the LGBTQ+ muny serve openly Israel’s ary and parliament, and many popular artists and entertaers are openly gay. Jewish ultra-Orthodox parti, which wield signifint fluence over matters of relign and state, oppose homosexualy as a vlatn of relig law, as do other relig groups nservative make-up of Netanyahu’s ernment sparked new fears the LGBTQ+ muny, which had seen gas unr the prev, short-lived admistratn led by Netanyahu’s rivals. Thoands take part the annual Gay Pri Para Jesalem, June 2, 2022.
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”The Yh Atid party – led by Foreign Mister Yair Lapid – is the send largt polil party the untry wh 19 seats the Knset and boasts that is the most-gay-supportive party Israel. “Yh Atid has fought for the LGBT muny more than any other party the past six years, ” said former MK Yael ’s Deputy Foreign Mister Idan Roll – a member of Knset om the Yh Atid party – is gay, married to a man and the father of two ’s Health Mister Nzan Horowz is the first openly gay lear of an Israeli polil party, emergg as the head of the left-wg Meretz party the first openly gay mister appoted to the Cabet was Amir Ohana om the right-wg Likud party 2019.