Tel Aviv celebrates gay pride festival with record-breaking participation of 100,000

The Times of Israel ^ | June 7, 2013, 8:05 am | Ricky Ben-David and Yoel Goldman

[haffast]

Tel Aviv hosted its 15th annual Gay Pride Festival on Friday, with a record-breaking 100,000 spectators and participants attending the celebrations, including droves of tourists from all over the world.

The Festival began at 10 a.m. at Gan Meir park, home to the city’s gay community center, and featured performances, speeches and music. A massive parade of tens of thousands of participants started at 1 p.m., making its way from the park through central Tel Aviv and culminating at the iconic Gordon Beach.

Attendees at the event included Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Minister of Culture and Sport Limor Livnat, Labor party chief Shelly Yachimovich and Meretz head Zahava Gal-on.

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai kicked off the festivities with a speech that reflected on the journey since the first annual Pride Parade, which he emceed in 1998.

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Also addressing the crowd, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro conveyed warm wishes from President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and the American people.

“There’s no better place to celebrate than in Tel Aviv, the friendliest city in the world to the LGBT community,” he said.

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[faithhopecharity]

Obama promotes it everywhere. Weakens people and societies and nations. Prepares the way for the Islamic takeover.

[faithhopecharity]

Obama promotes it everywhere. Weakens people and societies and nations. Prepares the way for the Islamic takeover.

[pastorbillrandles]

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.(Revelation 11)

[Psiman]

The Lord will strike Isreal down for its sins

[Netz]

These parades go a long way in hurting, not helping the Gay community. Israel is so used to being scolded for living so by allowing this behavior and even supporting it, they are, in a way saying to the world (the Gay world), “Look at me, I'm open, liberal and freely Democratic too, will you accept me as a “normal,, Western country like you”?
Tel Aviv is an island of Liberality and it is no coincidence that this kind of event could only take place on the Tel Aviv shores as the rest of the country is pretty damn Conservative and would toss tomatoes at them...
Young, fit (Homo) men hugging each other in the street is nothing to be proud of and certainly not in Israel...

[cherry]

its very sad for Israel....they have resisted destruction from their Arab neighbors ONLY because they are a strong, disciplined, godly people...

homosexuality as portrayed by the gay community is nothing more than evil....

[mplsconservative]

Sick world. Only He is perfect. Come quickly, dear Lord.

[wardaddy]

no offense

but your post makes no sense

[wardaddy]

they have resisted destruction from their Arab neighbors ONLY because they are a strong, disciplined, godly people.

You are uninformed dear about Israel.

Unless it's changed since my day there most Israelis are not religious. They fight and win because they are determined..not Godly..at least not now anyhow...though they are for sure more civilized then their neighbors..lol

The more religious in Israel as a rule do less of the fighting

"Never Again" means something to them in a far more cultural identity way than religious

Israel outside Jerusalem is rather secular albeit culturally quite Jewish...and very very leftist by our standards...at least before Obama

Not terribly religious and there is marked friction between the secular majority and the orthodox...palpable...over orthodox influence on cultural daily life that is

[Netz]

I am not worried though because in Israel, even the secular community scorns this outrageous behavior. The VAST majority of Israelis and Jews abhor this behavior and lifestyle. It is a relatively small segment of society and think of it, biologically, gay couples usually do not procreate so in a way, Darwin takes care of these people. Of course some adopt but biologically speaking, they are or will become extinct...

[RedHeeler]

Really, the queers are going to breed themselves, out of existence? How? They are sociopaths- thus, need producers to feed, upon. Darwin may provide an excuse tempore- we provide the reality. Sociopaths are well accommodated, by reasonable idiots. Sad story of Life. Please think a bit more...

[faithhopecharity]

hi!
i merely meant to say, that it is nice there are countries like USA and Israel where people have the liberty to live their “choice of lifestyle”

AND

that I find it so sad .... that so many young men seem to choose this “gay lifestyle” ... and parade it in the streets, too...

Free will and Liberty, yes.
Alas, though, because some choices or behaviors are dysfunctional for both individuals and society at large.

anyway, my opinion is unimportant, but there’s an effort at clarifying it.

best regards,
and thanks for your note.
fhc

[Netz]

If by definition a Sociopath is an unhealthy individual bound to make wrong life-survival choices then at some point in time they make the critical Darwinian error and...perish.

Of course they can feed on the healthy group body and there will be those ready to assist them.

The main thrust (excuse the pun) of the Gay community revolves around sex and sexual freedoms, sexual relations, sexual encounters, etc. The concept of the family, family building and couples living together (again, for sex) is secondary. They always harp on the physical sex aspects more than any other factor and given the fact that there can be no direct reproduction, doesn't that consign them, over time to the dust bins of human survival...as procreators, which the can't do?