Gay Israel
Lapid promises marriage equality within first 100 days of new gov. at Jerusalem Pride Parade
As the parade began, several people held signs protesting Israel's military actions in Gaza and treatment of Palestinians, with some reading "No pride in genocide" and "No pride in apartheid."
Anti-LGBTQ violence in Israel rose sharply in 2025, national queer and trans violence report finds
Tel Aviv's Kipod Hazahav festival brings 16 independent productions to the stage
'They are unnatural': Arab channel TV show guest calls for the execution of gay people
Coalition MKs threatened with sanctions after voting for surrogacy law
The bill, which was sponsored by Yesh Atid MK Idan Roll, fell by a 47 to 29 vote, despite the support of the rebellious MKs.
Assi Azar to be in Israel's first major campaign starring an LGBTQ couple
Insurance company AIG hired Azar and his husband, Albert Escola, to star in their Israeli ads for the next two years, marking the first major commercial campaign headed an LGBTQ couple.
LGBTQ community calls for the dismissal of Peretz
The community gathered in Beer Sheba and Tel Aviv to protest the latest statements on conversion therapy by MK Peretz
A proud Knesset
Israeli society is inherently liberal and progressive when it comes to social issues.
Jewish Agency to help gay employees with surrogacy costs
The Jewish Agency will become the first state body to help gay couples with surrogacy costs in light of ongoing ineligibility of gay couples for surrogacy in Israel.
Jewish same-sex couple win lawsuit, twins recognized as U.S. citizens
The couple, an American and an Israeli, were forced to undergo DNA tests that proved that one twin was the son of the American while the other was the son of the Israeli.
LGBTQ hate incidents up 54% in 2018
The report notes that an incident of harassment or abuse against members of the LGBTQ community occurs every ten hours in Israel on average.
New LGBT political party to be founded
“A lot of parties like saying they promote gay rights, but we can better run our struggles by ourselves...straight people can’t really represent us. It’s time to have our own representatives."
Annual Pride Parade takes over Jerusalem
Participants in the Jerusalem parade congregated in Liberty Bell Park amid heavy security, and at 17:30 began wending their way through the city.
200 leading rabbis call gays ‘perverts,’ oppose gay surrogacy
The letter caused outrage among liberal leaders and organizations, who castigated the rabbis and called for any of them on the public payroll to be fired.