A major Palestinian news agency linked to the terrorist group Hamas mocked revelers at Tel Aviv’s annual gay pride parade with homophobic slurs in a series of widely-shared Facebook posts. The Gaza-based Shehab News Agency used derogatory terms for gay men and women in its coverage of the LGBT community’s annual parade along the Mediterranean coast last week, […]
Dana Beyer participated in the historic JFNA LGBTQ mission to Israel and came up with the term Political Cognitive Dysphoria, as an analogous to the gender dysphoria suffered by transgender people, to describe people who support Israel’s LGBT community, but disagree with the country politics. Tel Aviv 2016 Pride Parade (Photo by: Schlomo Zwiebel) Cognitive […]
Lesbians Who Tech combines two distinct yet quintessential facets of Tel Aviv life: a vibrant LGBT scene and high-tech startups center. Lesbians Who Tech in Tel Aviv (Photo: Lidar Moshe) For one week in June, Israel’s second city drums to a different beat: A mass of bronzed and oiled bodies descend on beachside bars and […]
Alan Cumming, the actor you may know as the incomparable political operative Eli Gold on The Good Wife, will be the guest of honor at the 11th TLVFest, the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, which will run from May 29 to June 7 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Lea DeLaria Colby Keller The festival, […]
The Gay Pride Parade 2016 will take place on Friday June 3rd, starting at 10am at Meir Park (home of the Tel Aviv Gay Community Center) with music, shows and speeches. “Women for a Change” – Pride 2016 theme Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Ron Huldai said, “The Pride Parade has turned into one of the […]
Izhar Cohen, Pnina Rosenblum,Moran Mazor and Ilanit will take the stage alongside more than 20 drag queens and kings in the traditional colorful and campy show Wigstock, to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS. The internationally traditional drag Festival returns to Tel Aviv this year on June 1st, in order to raise awareness for HIV […]
The Tel Aviv LGBT Center has published its schedule for the 2016 LGBT Culture Festival that begins next week (May 15) and will last until June 2. The Culture Festival follows this year’s Tel Aviv Pride theme, which is Women in the community, and puts the women in the center of its presentations. Here are […]
It’s been about six years since Eliad Cohen became the poster boy for Zionist sex appeal around the globe. With endless ambition and gnarled Middle Eastern features such as big muscles, hairy chest and a mischievous smile, Eliad was able to leverage the Israeli look as far as possible. Since appearing on the cover of […]