LGBTQ people in the Arab sector are exposed to manifestations of violence, humiliation, ostracism, threats, and isolation. A pride parade in Nazareth can be a significant step in alleviating the distress from which Arab LGBT people suffer. Attorney Eran Rosenzweig believes that a parade that will create dialogue rather than antagonism, can remove the curtain […]
LGBTQ Jews and allies marched proudly in the Halifax Pride Parade (Nova Scotia, Canada) on Saturday, July 22. The March came after a controversy last fall at Halifax Pride’s annual general meeting, in which BDS activists tried and failed to remove all mentions and signs about Israel from the parade. A Wider Bridge was proud […]
After failing to prevent a Gay Pride event to be held tomorrow (July 27) in Hod Hasharon, ultra-Orthodox people in the city have organized a rally to “save the religion” at the same time as the Pride event, causing strict security requirements for the LGBTQ event. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the city of Hod Hasharon have […]
Organizers of North Carolina’s gay pride parade and festival said they would find a solution following complaints from the Jewish community about the event being scheduled for Yom Kippur. Pride in North Carolina (photo: ncpride.org) “We’re going to solve that no matter what it takes,” organizer John Short told The Herald-Sun on Thursday. “Exactly how we’ll solve that […]
‘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 […]
Artist and freelance Jewish educational consultant, Rae Antonoff, says that if Jewish participation with even the faintest whiff of Israel supposedly poisons LGBTQ pride parades, then it’s high time we embarked on a serious leadership detox and cleared the way for a less anti-Semitic Pride month next year. Coming out as a bisexual in a […]
Around 2,000 activists, surrounded by 5,000 police officers, marched Sunday at Kiev’s gay pride parade. Chen Arieli, chair of The Aguda: “A few minutes into the march I couldn’t stop the tears.” Chen Arieli at Kiev’s Gay Pride Parade. “I don’t even know how to begin summarizing this experience. We have just finished marching in […]
Psychotherapist and longtime LGBT activist, Marcy Adelman, was named the Life Achievement Grand Marshal by the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade board of directors, who called her a “pioneer in the field of lesbian and gay aging.” When thousands gather to watch San Francisco’s Pride Parade along Market Street on June 25, they’ll […]
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 […]
Gerhard Soyka, a political science graduate student at Dalhousie University and an LGBTQ+ activist from German, says that no one is denying the existence of human rights violations, not even the Jewish community, but still – there’s no empirical causation to construct a link between that and LGBTQ+ rights in Israel. On Wednesday of last […]