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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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New film highlights struggles of gay Palestinians in Israel
Khader Abu Seif’s struggles as a gay Arab Israeli citizen are the subject of his documentary “Oriented,” touted as the first to focus on gay Palestinian citizens.
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Over 100,000 celebrate at Tel Aviv LGBT Pride, region’s biggest
Thousands of bare-chested muscular men, drag queens in heavy makeup and high heels, women in colorful balloon costumes and others partied at Tel Aviv’s annual gay pride parade on Friday, the largest event of its kind in the region.
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More than one thousand rally in Tel Aviv to protest recent anti-LGBT violence
TEL AVIV — More than a thousand people marched in the streets of Tel Aviv on Thursday to protest against transphobia and anti-LGBT violence in Israel.
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Gay men in Tel Aviv attacked by group hurling homophobic slurs
TEL-Aviv, Israel — A group of gay and straight friends were violently attacked in Tel Aviv on Saturday by mob of 11 people hurling anti-gay slurs, just one week following a similar attack on a transgender woman.
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Israel city unveils gay Holocaust victims memorial
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s cultural and financial capital unveiled a memorial Friday honoring gays and lesbians persecuted by the Nazis, the first specific recognition in Israel for non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
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Israel honors gay Holocaust victims in first national memorial
TEL AVIV — A new monument to pay tribute to Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust who were persecuted by the Nazis for their sexual orientation has been unveiled in Tel Aviv.
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U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv issues first visas to married, same-sex couples
TEL AVIV, Israel — The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday issued the first derivative visas to same-sex spouses.