Posts Tagged: LGBT Israel
Israel is a Beacon for Gay Rights in the Middle East
JNS.org - Tel Aviv is on a roll when it comes to support for the LGBTQ community. Since the beginning of June, the Tel Aviv Municipality building...
Jerusalem Hosts LGBT Drag Queen Race
JNS.org - The LGBT community in Jerusalem held a first-of-its-kind drag queen race this week, in which all the 40 participants needed to run in...
Exposing the ‘Pinkwashing’ Lie
On Wednesday, thousands of tourists from around the world arrived in Israel for the Nonstop Gay Festival, a joint venture of the Tourism Ministry and...
Israeli Education Minister’s Lesbian Sister Comes to His Defense After Anti-Gay Comments
The lesbian sister of Israel's Minister of Education, Shai Piron, on Sunday defended her brother after comments he made last week saying the state should...
Gay Rights Rally Held in Tel Aviv
Ynet - Some 1,000 people marched in Tel Aviv on Friday to raise awareness to the hardships the LGBT community faces in Israel. Protesters were calling on...
Gay Groups Were Great Addition to Celebrate Israel Parade
On June 2, the annual Celebrate Israel Parade brought together Jews from across New York to celebrate Israel's 65th birthday. But this year, it wasn't...
What the 2012 Gay Pride Parade and Israel Parade Had in Common
Summertime in Manhattan brings many things: street festivals, open hydrants, crime, Con-Ed outages, Jews for Jesus and parades. Earlier in June, I marched in the Israel...
LGBT Palestinians Escape to Party Freely in Tel Aviv
As the Palestinian territories have no specific civil rights legislation protecting LGBT people from discrimination or harassment, a group called the Palestinian ...
