Evita, Tel Aviv’s last gay bar, is coming back for 2017 Pride week and the LGBT community is abuzz with delight. From June 6 to June 11 the Abraham Hostel will be hosting Evita Pride Edition, located on 21 Levontin Street just off Rothschild Boulevard. Events are set to be jam-packed full of guest DJs, […]
As dating apps change the way people hook up, are havens like Evita becoming obsolete? The Evita staff Tel Aviv users of Grindr, the dating app for gays, repeatedly encountered a pop-up ad inviting them to celebrate the absolutely last week of Evita Bar, which closed its doors on Shabbat after 12 years. But apparently […]
A first for Berlin’s Gay Pride parade: an official Tel Aviv float, with Israeli DJs and representatives of Tel Aviv’s community life. The goal: to expose Tel Aviv to gay audiences and increase inbound tourism. Participants of the Tel Aviv float in Berlin Gay Pride. This is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the Municipality of Tel […]
In the last three months, four young gay men have died from drug overdoses during parties at clubs, and two of the recent cases occurred within a week of each other. The Aguda has decided to fight the phenomenon, and has held a meeting with all the party producers and club owners to draft a […]
Itamar Michaeli remembers very well how other gay men used to tell him that his body is not good enough for them. Now, despite all the shame, he has a boyfriend- without stepping a foot in a gym A few months ago I went out with two friends to the Lima Lima. A guy came […]
Mei Feingold may not have made it to the final, representing Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with her song “Same Heart” earlier this year, but the LGBT community still loves her. The singer has been asked by the most popular gay bar, Evita, to record their 2014 gay pride anthem, and the song was […]