Thousands of people are expected to take part in a nationwide strike on Sunday to protest a law passed Wednesday that denies state-supported surrogacy to homosexual couples and single men, and to draw attention to the inequality of LGBTQ rights in general. Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a demonstration against a […]
Israel’s transgender Ma’avarim organization has successfully provided 3 academic scholarships to the trans community. Watch the video to see how lives are changing! Support the campaign to provide additional scholarships: http://bit.ly/2xU1gO7 While Israel boasts itself as LGBT friendly, the reality of trans and gender variant people in Israel is similar to that of the gay community 30 […]
Microsoft Israel, with the help of Tel Aviv women’s party line BE PROUD, has produced a series of images for the pride events, under the title “Titkadmu” (‘get on with it’), a message to the Israeli government to legalize marriage equality. The goal of the images that are spread across social media and will be […]
Simultaneous campaigns to both traditional, religious tourists and the global gay community isn’t a problem, Tourism Ministry says: ‘Contradictions make us unique.’ Israel has retained a new public relations agency in the United States and is embarking on a plan to tap two new markets – American Hispanics and gays. MWW PR, which represents blue […]
In a gala organized by LGBTech and the organization Maavarim, nine scholarships were awarded to young transgender people. Avi Sofer: “Nine people were this evening given a high enough ladder to climb to the next level in their lives.” One of the major difficulties faced by members of the trans community is finding jobs that […]
A precedent scholarship program, initiated by transgender organization Ma’avarim and partially funded by Microsoft Israel, includes providing an opportunity for academic studies to the transgender community. The goal: integration of more transgender people into the labor market. The entrepreneur of the programs as said: “This is not a compromise, these are the kind of people […]