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.
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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
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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.
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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 * gay parade jerusalem 2023 *
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.
”“This is the most important gay pri para ever, ” said Hila Pe’er, chair of Aguda, Israel’s LGBT task force.
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 *
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.
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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. 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.