Tough pride in Jerusalem.As gay pride celebrations unfolded in countries around the world, June proved to be a difficult month for gays and lesbians in Jerusalem. The city's second annual pride parade, set for June 13, bad to be postponed a week, following a June 11 suicide bombing Noun 1. suicide bombing - a terrorist bombing carried out by someone who does not hope to survive it bombing - the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists suicide bombing n → on a bus that killed 17. Alan Beer, an American immigrant who helped organize last year's historic parade, was among the dead. "We cannot joyfully parade in the heart of Jerusalem while funerals are taking place, including those of neighbors and friends," Hagai Elad, executive director of Jerusalem Open House The Jerusalem Open House (JOH) is Jerusalem's LGBTQ Community Center, Advancing the Cause of Social Tolerance. The Jerusalem Open House is a grassroots, activist organization of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered people, and allies. , told GayMiddleEast.com. Around the same time, Jerusalem police were investigating the destruction of about 20 of the 100 gay pride flags hung in the city center. In a statement the banned far-right Kach movement had sharply criticized the flags as "disgraceful dis·grace·ful adj. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful. dis·grace  ful·ly adv. ." Jerusalem's newly elected ultra-Orthodox mayor, Uri Luponlianski, gave lukewarm luke·warm adj. 1. Mildly warm; tepid. 2. Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; indifferent: gave only lukewarm support to the incumbent candidate. backing to the rescheduled parade. "Everyone has his own parade," he said June 17. "I myself will be marching in Marching In is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of the US publication 'High Fidelity', with the stipulation that it be 2,500 words long, set twenty-five years in the future and deal with an aspect of sound recording. another parade." |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion