Tel Aviv

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  LGBTQ people went on strike in Israel & shut the country down

  Tens of thousands of Israelis skipped going to work and took to the streets to protest for gay families instead.

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  Pride was celebrated all over the world over the weekend & we’ve got pictures

  From DC to Bucharest, LGBT people filled cities, held up rainbow flags, and marched for their lives.

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  6 Pride events that went on in the face of violent threats

  They wouldn't let hate win.

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  Why queer filmmakers are boycotting Israel’s LGBTQ film festival

  Israel's gay community is the latest target of a global push for a cultural boycott of Israel.

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  Tel Aviv Pride focuses on bisexuality this year

  Organizers cited the stigma bisexuals face from both straight and gay people as a reason the theme was chosen.

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  New Israeli film featuring independent Muslim lesbian is making waves

  "In Between" is the film's English title. In Arabic, it is called "Land Sea," an expression meaning "Neither Here Nor There," the film's name in Hebrew.

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  200,000 party at Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade, region’s biggest

  Given that sexuality and identity can be punished by persecution and even murder, this is an LGBTQ oasis

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  Judges at Israeli pageant want contestants with ‘the transgender look’

  The top prize at the first-ever Miss Trans Israel pageant is a $15,000 voucher for a renowned plastic surgeon in Thailand.

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  Israel holds its first transgender beauty contest

  Who will be the first "Miss Trans Israel?"

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  To protest book ban, straight and gay Israeli Jews and Arabs passionately kiss

  After the Israeli Ministry of Education decided to ban a book depicting a love affair between a Jewish woman and an Arab man, lips locked in furious protest.

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