Organizers expect Jesalem Gay Pri Para to be the largt ever; claim the importance of the annual event this year while rights are unr threat om the ernment and vlence agast LGBTQ+ members on the rise
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- ISRAEL SET TO LNCH 2023 GAY PRI MONTH
- GAY PRI CALENDAR
- HIGH POLICE PREPAREDNS FOR GAY PRI PARA JESALEM: "LONG WEEKS OF PREPARATN" | ISRAEL HAYOM
ISRAEL SET TO LNCH 2023 GAY PRI MONTH
More than ever before, this year’s Jesalem gay pri para offered a stage for opponents of the current far-right/ultra-Orthodox aln and the judicial overhl advanced by the ernment. * gay parade jerusalem 2023 *
JERUSALEM — Jesalem’s 21st gay pri para, held Thursday wh some 30, 000 participants, was pecially polil this year wh lears of the opposn takg the stage to fend Israel’s mocratic para took place unr heavy societal tensns.
Tragic memori of the 2015 murr of 16-year-old Shira Banki by an ultra-Orthodox zealot durg that year's gay pri march hovered over everythg. Several policians intified wh homophobic and anti-gay stanc hold key posns the current ernment, makg this year’s para pecially tense. On the morng of the para, Jesalem’s Deputy Mayor Yosi Havil nducted six alternative weddg servic for members of the gay muny his municipal office.
In a public statement, Havil said, “Anyone who has a problem wh gay upl is wele to move to another cy.
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”“This is the most important gay pri para ever, ” said Hila Pe’er, chair of Aguda, Israel’s LGBT task force.
That is our rponse to the homophobia, prejudice and discrimatn oozg om the ernment. ”The history of Jesalem’s gay pri para shows that this nnot be taken for granted the cy that is home to hundreds of thoands of relig and ultra-Orthodox rints. Jesalem’s gay pri para was first lnched the summer of 2002, spe vocifero opposn om a cy uncil domated by ultra-Orthodox parti led by then Deputy Mayor Uri Lopoliansky.
While Amir Ohana of the Likud, an openly gay man who has children wh his partner, serv as speaker of the Knset, his senr posn was not mentned even once at the event.
HIGH POLICE PREPAREDNS FOR GAY PRI PARA JESALEM: "LONG WEEKS OF PREPARATN" | ISRAEL HAYOM
Much of Israel’s L.G.B.T.Q. muny feels threatened by the right-wg ernment and s judicial overhl plan — even wh a gay speaker of Parliament. * gay parade jerusalem 2023 *
JERUSALEM — Thoands of people are expected to march Jesalem’s Pri para Thursday, an annual event that is takg place this year unr Israel’s most right-wg ernment ever, stacked wh openly homophobic march the nservative cy is always tense and tightly secured by police, and has been h 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.
But Thursday’s para Jesalem is expected to draw bigger crowds than ual a show of force agast the ernment and s plan to rhape the legal Mister Benjam Netanyahu’s ernment is ma up of ultranatnalist and ultra-relig parti that openly cry homosexualy, although the Israeli lear has promised to protect LGBTQ+ rights and a gay member of his party is the speaker of the parliament. Fance Mister Bezalel Smotrich has the past clared he was a “proud homophobe.
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At the para 2015, an ultra-Orthodox man stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to ath and wound several is a rare bastn of tolerance for the LGBTQ+ muny the nservative Middle East, where homosexualy is wily nsired taboo and is outlawed some plac.
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 makp 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. Organizers expect Jesalem Gay Pri Para to be the largt ever; claim the importance of the annual event this year while rights are unr threat om the ernment and vlence agast LGBTQ+ members on the riseIsrael is set to Lnch Gay Pri Month on Thursday, wh a rerd-breakg 100 events planned around the untry and paras will take place where they had not before. 2 View gallery A protter holds an Israeli and rabow flag durg a monstratn outsi the Tel Aviv rabbate(Photo: Nadav Av)This year the LGBTQ+ muny's rights are unr threat om the most right-wg and relig ernment the untry's history cludg the prence of homophobic puty mister Avi Maoz who has brand LGBTQ as viants.