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eumeliaTomorrow is Pride in Jerusalem.
This year is special.
Pride was moved nearly two months out of Pride Month, which is June, to the end of July in order for the March to be in honour of Nir Katz and Liz Trobishi (z"l) who were murdered (while 15 others were wounded, some are still in need of treatment due to chronic conditions stemming from the wounds) a year ago in a homophobic terrorist attack, the perpetrator of which is still at large.
The QUILTBAG1 community has hard a rough time this past year, not simply with our bubble burst wide open - because our sense of security in Tel-Aviv really was that of a Gay Mecca.
Surprise.
Or, not, depending on your perspective.
The attack was a shock, but not really a surprise, if you pay enough attention to the callous way our identity was/is simultaneously used to make Israel out to be this liberal paradise for gays, while having members of Knesset call us disease bearing animals.
It's a dissonance most do not want to look too closely at, because then all the liberal gay men and woman who just want "equality" will have to take a long hard look upon whose back that "equality" is broken.
Sorry, going off tangent there.
Coming back to the issue. Tomorrow I'm off to Jerusalem to march in Pride and we will be marching in the city Centre all the way to the Knesset.
Hells Yes.
It's also the first time a family member will be marching with me; my sister has decided to walk along side me and mine and I'm really moved by her decision.
It's also, again, a matter of contention whether we should be allowed to march at all in the Capitol City (whether we like it or not) of the Country, because it's a Holy City to the three monotheistic religions, all of which regard the practice (some even the desire that may not even be acted upon) of homosexuality as sinful.
I cannot tell you how much I seethe when I see this argument being brought forth. This is fucking civil rights, not your fucking Kosher Kitchen!
Yeah, it pisses me off.
It pisses me off when I see an article the night before the march in which the same ole' nationalistic right wing faction ass-holes are saying: "Doesn't a donkey deserve to be a donkey".
Yeah, guess what deputy mayor Itzhak Pindrus is referring to in that disgusting quote.
Speaking of which, floating around the interwebs is a statement of principles that was written after many hours of debate, apparently, by Orthodox Jewish scholars, Rabbis, etc.
It irks me. It irritates me. I find it abhorrent that the tradition of heterosexism, gender binary and "hate the sin, love the sinner" is still something so many of us swarm towards because it is a tiny molecule of a crumb of acceptance.
Don't tell me I'm impatient, that these things take time, that this is progress.
No, no it is not. This is what enshrines inequality, because those with "homosexual attraction" will always be lesser in the eyes of those who know what god really meant when a bunch of deranged men wrote down swaths of folklore and decided that in order to be a Chosen People we would have to differentiate ourselves entirely from the polytheists that surrounded us at the time.
Good going Abe! Thanks a lot Moses!
Fuck it. I'm watching "Victor/Victoria" and tomorrow I'd like to see the ass who tries walk a donkey onto my parade.
1) The Acronym of Awesome, which I will continue to plug here, until I see it elsewhere and know that it is gaining at least a little wind.
Queer/Questioning, Undecided/Up yours, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans, Bisexual, Asexual/Allies, Gay/Genderqueer.
Back to text.
This year is special.
Pride was moved nearly two months out of Pride Month, which is June, to the end of July in order for the March to be in honour of Nir Katz and Liz Trobishi (z"l) who were murdered (while 15 others were wounded, some are still in need of treatment due to chronic conditions stemming from the wounds) a year ago in a homophobic terrorist attack, the perpetrator of which is still at large.
The QUILTBAG1 community has hard a rough time this past year, not simply with our bubble burst wide open - because our sense of security in Tel-Aviv really was that of a Gay Mecca.
Surprise.
Or, not, depending on your perspective.
The attack was a shock, but not really a surprise, if you pay enough attention to the callous way our identity was/is simultaneously used to make Israel out to be this liberal paradise for gays, while having members of Knesset call us disease bearing animals.
It's a dissonance most do not want to look too closely at, because then all the liberal gay men and woman who just want "equality" will have to take a long hard look upon whose back that "equality" is broken.
Sorry, going off tangent there.
Coming back to the issue. Tomorrow I'm off to Jerusalem to march in Pride and we will be marching in the city Centre all the way to the Knesset.
Hells Yes.
It's also the first time a family member will be marching with me; my sister has decided to walk along side me and mine and I'm really moved by her decision.
It's also, again, a matter of contention whether we should be allowed to march at all in the Capitol City (whether we like it or not) of the Country, because it's a Holy City to the three monotheistic religions, all of which regard the practice (some even the desire that may not even be acted upon) of homosexuality as sinful.
I cannot tell you how much I seethe when I see this argument being brought forth. This is fucking civil rights, not your fucking Kosher Kitchen!
Yeah, it pisses me off.
It pisses me off when I see an article the night before the march in which the same ole' nationalistic right wing faction ass-holes are saying: "Doesn't a donkey deserve to be a donkey".
Yeah, guess what deputy mayor Itzhak Pindrus is referring to in that disgusting quote.
Speaking of which, floating around the interwebs is a statement of principles that was written after many hours of debate, apparently, by Orthodox Jewish scholars, Rabbis, etc.
It irks me. It irritates me. I find it abhorrent that the tradition of heterosexism, gender binary and "hate the sin, love the sinner" is still something so many of us swarm towards because it is a tiny molecule of a crumb of acceptance.
Don't tell me I'm impatient, that these things take time, that this is progress.
No, no it is not. This is what enshrines inequality, because those with "homosexual attraction" will always be lesser in the eyes of those who know what god really meant when a bunch of deranged men wrote down swaths of folklore and decided that in order to be a Chosen People we would have to differentiate ourselves entirely from the polytheists that surrounded us at the time.
Good going Abe! Thanks a lot Moses!
Fuck it. I'm watching "Victor/Victoria" and tomorrow I'd like to see the ass who tries walk a donkey onto my parade.
1) The Acronym of Awesome, which I will continue to plug here, until I see it elsewhere and know that it is gaining at least a little wind.
Queer/Questioning, Undecided/Up yours, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans, Bisexual, Asexual/Allies, Gay/Genderqueer.
Back to text.
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Date: 2010-07-28 10:21 pm (UTC)Have an enjoyable, fruitful Pride!
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Date: 2010-07-28 10:25 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2010-07-28 11:08 pm (UTC)"Doesn't a donkey deserve to be a donkey"
urgh, what a fucking arsehole.
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Date: 2010-07-29 08:13 am (UTC)The fact that he's the deputy mayor irritates me more, actually.
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Date: 2010-07-29 12:34 am (UTC)It's very cool that your sister is walking with you in this pride, and our very best "fuck off" for anyone who thinks of you as anything other than people fully deserving to live your lives without official or unofficial harassment or second-class status.
And perhaps when the Abrahamic religions are no longer dominant, we can finally get to the process of saying that G-d loves everyone as they are and mean it, instead of saying G-d loves everyone, except for you.
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