Lee Arnan was on the way from work to his Neveh Tzedek (a Tel Aviv neighborhood) home when a group of boys began harassing him. “Are you a man or a woman?” They asked again and again, and when they didn’t get an answer, they grabbed him and pulled down his pants. Only then, when […]
A violent homophobic hate crime occurred on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv during the holiday of Purim. Three gay men were violently beaten up only because two of them were holding hands. And if that wasn’t enough, the attitude of the cops who arrived at the scene was intolerant and hurtful. “I have never been […]
Imry Zagury, an instructor at IGY, “comes out” as a figure skating child-star who quit the sport because he was told it’s not “manly enough.” He gives this as an example for gender-suppression in modern society, not necessarily related to the LGBT community: It might come as a surprise, but there’s one closet I haven’t […]
Rob Young, Vice President (Society and Citizenship) at UK’s National Union of Students, thinks that there a lot of similarity between Jewish people talking about their oppression and how it was being ignored with a deafening silence, and the opression he felt growing up as a gay boy. I got involved with political campaigning at […]
Transgender activist Dana Beyer writes a very pessimistic post-election column, saying that his election changes everything; the alt-Reich won. Beyer says that the response needs to be to respond in kind: “One doesn’t defeat a group of bullies with fine words or ‘going high.’” Yesterday America committed suicide. The idea of America, about which I […]
Mental health campaigner Jonny Benjamin told HuffPost UK about growing up gay and attending a Jewish school. Britain’s leading event ‘Education For All’ conference, held to promote better legislation and awareness of LGBT bullying. Mental health campaigner Jonny Benjamin was also at the event. “I went to a Jewish school and homosexuality was just not talked about, […]
Roy Mimran, 17 and a half, from Givatayim and Tel Aviv, was the boy with the famous T shirt “I’ve got two fathers, and I don’t apologize” who drew attention before the last elections in Israel. This boy faces a war he had to deal with throughout his whole life – the war against homophobia. […]
Accord signed by Education Minister Naftali Bennett states Israel’s commitment to fighting discrimination, violence against LGBT community, including bullying in schools; Teachers to be trained to address bullying over sexual orientation, gender identity Carmel Shama Hacohen, Israel’s Ambassador to UNESCO Israel was the only Middle Eastern country to sign on to a UNESCO initiative designed […]
Research on the schooling experience of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth in Israel and in other Western countries has found that LGB youth tend to cope with homophobic bullying in five different ways. The recent Israeli research also reinforces the help of community organizations to the mental and social health of LGB kids. Since […]
Tonight in Stockholm, Sweden, Hovi Star will take the stage singing for Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest. Despite the fact that the bookings agencies across Europe predict Israel will not be qualified this year for the Eurovision final on Saturday, the publicly-out Star managed to grab a lot of attention during this Eurovision Week. […]