Pride in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Pride Parade, 2008
Photo: [niv] on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons license.
On her recent trip to explore Israel (and particularly Tel Aviv), Sharon Udasin was able to do quite a bit of reporting on some of the city’s most fascinating features. In this article, published in this week’s New York Jewish Week, she takes in some of the latest developments in Tel Aviv’s LGBT scene. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a specific neighborhood that’s the nexus of the LGBT crowd–instead she finds that the gay scene exists comfortably everywhere in the city. Plus, the article is a great introduction to some of the institutions and people that make up Tel Aviv’s gay culture. Enjoy the read; we’ll bring you more such dispatches over the next few days.
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Thank you so much for posting my articles!! This was one of my most amazing reporting experiences ever, and everyone — particularly from the LGBT community — was incredibly helpful and forthcoming with information. Thank you Tel Aviv
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How can anyone be proud of being a queer, not straight, bent out of shape, too much of a coward to have a normal, straight, natural relationship with someone of the opposite sex?
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That was a pretty good article – generally accurate. Compare Israel to our backwards & primitive neighbors & their ghastly treatment of gays. Gays are persecuted in all Muslim countries, in Iran they are hung in public, in Iraq, tortured & murdered by Islamic thugs. Many Palestinian gays seek asylum here in Israel to escape the brutal & barbaric treatment. While there is opposition to some gay rights among the ultra-orthodox (gay parades, marriage) keep in mind that what they object to is public displays – no one advocates persecution or murder.
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