‘An insane amount of people came, a lot more than last year, and you can see an increase in awareness,’ says one parade goer; another explains the parade is part of the struggle for equal rights, ‘The fact I love girls doesn’t mean I don’t deserve to get married in Israel.’ Over 3,000 people participated […]
After 16 years of expectation and a long struggle, the LGBTQ community is embarking on the first gay pride parade in Israel’s largest southern city, Be’er Sheva. The first ever Beer Sheva gay pride parade will be held on Thursday, June 22. Last year’s parade was canceled after the municipality and the police refused to […]
Beer Sheva municipality has gone through a significant change in attitude towards the LGBT community since last year’s cancellation of the gay pride parade. Beer Sheva Pride House is moving: Old place (right), new place (left) Last year, the Beer Sheva Municipality caved in to orthodox extremists and did not approve the LGBT community’s pride […]
In rural and peripheral areas in Israel live hundreds of LGBT people who have to cope every day with life outside or inside the closet in less accepting and open surroundings. Erin Toledano-Farajov, a bisexual genderqueer transgender woman, tries to explain life as LGBT on the periphery through her own personal experience. Erin Toledano-Farajov, who’s […]
Popular Israeli economic magazine Globes published its annual list of 40 Most Promising People in Israel, and the right-wing gay Member of Knesset Amir Ohana made the list. Below is the interview with him. When Amir Ohana was a child, he dreamed of being a string-scorching stage-ripping guitarist, like Slash from Guns ‘n’ Roses. He […]
Since 2013, LGBT activists in the city of Rishon Lezion, which defines itself as an “alternative to Tel Aviv” struggle to hold an LGBT event with the support of the municipality – with no success. Last year, members of the gay community in Rishon Lezion launched the “LGBT community Sukkah” project, to build a sukkah […]
The 26-year-old was arrested in the run-up to a protest against a decision blocking Be’er Sheva’s annual gay pride parade. A 26-year-old man from Be’er Sheva is suing the police for false arrest after he was detained last month before a protest by the city’s gay community. Related: It’s 2016, and I Was Bullied By […]
At the beginning of the summer popular family websites Xnet and Kinderland invited families to rate their favorite family fun attractions in Israel. Thousands of people voted, and the results are below. #1: Underwater Observatory, Eilat The shark pool with 18 new giant sharks, a display of fish, corals, stingrays, turtles and more. Visiting the […]
In an emotional video, Shay Sekler, the gay activist who was arrested at the Beer Sheva LGBT protest last week, walks us through that evening, and details the homophobia he suffered from the southern city’s police. Shay Sekler “We were about to go home from the protest in Beer Sheva after it was over,” Shay […]
When it comes to a peaceful march for granting equality to the LGBT community, the police let the people making threats win. The High Court of Justice’s ruling on Be’er Sheva’s Gay Pride Parade, in which it denied a petition to overturn a police decision to change the parade’s route, is riddled with holes. The […]