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People participate in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, on June 14, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 14, 2019, 9:07 am
With glitz and glamor, Tel Aviv celebrates Mideast’s largest Pride parade
250,000 expected at annual event that concludes month of LGBTQ activities; major streets closed; top activist says while march is happy, discrimination is ongoing
By ToI Staff
Actor Neil Patrick Harris, the 2019 International Pride Ambassador, in Tel Aviv on June 13, 2019. (courtesy Tel Aviv municipality)
June 13, 2019, 2:37 pm
How I met your city: Neil Patrick Harris hosts Friday’s Tel Aviv Pride Parade
Quarter of a million people expected to turn White City into rainbow for annual extravaganza
By Melanie Lidman
Men wave rainbow flags at the Annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, June 12, 2015 (Flash90/Gili Yaari)
April 17, 2016, 5:30 pm
Gay groups irked at Tourism Ministry spin on pride parade
LGBT organization toys with canceling Tel Aviv event after NIS 11 million invested on visitors, rainbow paint for plane
By Stuart Winer
In this photo taken on November 10, 2015, an Israeli man appears in a cafe in the Florentin neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
November 18, 2015, 4:29 am
Tel Aviv’s Florentin a bustling bohemian hub
With its hipsters, edgy graffiti and countercultural sensibility, this gay-friendly southern section of Israel’s iconic metropolis is one of countrey’s last true neighborhoods
By Aron Heller
A drag queen sings during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 12, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
June 12, 2015, 1:35 pm
Gay Pride revelers take to the streets in Tel Aviv
Nation’s largest LGBT rights event brings center of ‘gay-friendliest city in the world’ to raucous, festive standstill
By ToI Staff
Israeli performers dance in the foreground during the annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 14, 2014. (AP/Oded Balilty)
June 12, 2015, 9:48 am
Tel Aviv gears up, and shuts down, for Gay Pride parade
17th annual rights march under way; 180,000 expected to join popular street festival
By ToI Staff
Thousands attend the annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 13, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 11, 2015, 2:01 am
In LGBT victory, court bans transgender workplace prejudice
Amid Tel Aviv Pride Week celebrations, Economy Ministry commission finds employment among transgender community in sad state
By Daniel Bernstein
Israeli performers dance in the foreground during the annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 14, 2014. (AP/Oded Balilty)
June 14, 2014, 12:57 am
Over 100,000 celebrate gay pride in Tel Aviv
City’s streets filled with revelers for annual parade, the largest event of its kind in the Middle East
By Itamar Sharon and AP
Thousands attend the annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 13, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 13, 2014, 1:38 pm
Tens of thousands celebrate gay pride in Tel Aviv
City’s streets filled with revelers as annual parade sets off from center, to culminate in beach party
By Itamar Sharon
Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau, France's first gay newlyweds, kiss in Tel Aviv on their honeymoon, June 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Municipality of Tel Aviv)
June 12, 2014, 9:54 pm
The 10 gayest things about Tel Aviv
We break down the most rainbow-colored aspects of the White City, where every day feels like Pride
By Debra Kamin
Tel Aviv has become a beach mecca for gays from around the world. swim trunksvia Shuttertock
June 11, 2014, 7:49 pm
Gay-focused tours find gold in Tel Aviv’s rainbow
Looking to cash in on the city’s drive to attract gay tourists, a slew of boutique agencies are cropping up
By Debra Kamin
Israelis take part in the annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on August 1, 2013. (photo credit: Sarah Schuman/Flash90)
August 1, 2013, 11:23 pm
Jerusalem of gold, and all the colors of the rainbow
Activists in 12th annual Gay Pride parade hope to promote LGBT-friendly legislation; three arrested for assaulting marchers
By Adiv Sterman
The gay pride parade in Tel Aviv, Friday. (photo credit: Times of Israel staff)
June 7, 2013, 8:05 am
Tel Aviv’s gay pride festival draws record-breaking 100,000
US ambassador addresses crowd; Yair Lapid heckled by ‘Meretz and Labor activists’; celebration marred by developments in 2009 gay center shooting
By Ricky Ben-David and Yoel Goldman
Thousands attended the gay pride parade 2011 beach party at Gordon Beach, Tel Aviv (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich)
January 29, 2013, 6:31 am
Tel Aviv reinvented as gay hotspot
Municipality has successfully marketed itself as LGBT mecca
By Greg Tepper
The 2012 Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
June 17, 2012, 5:22 pm
Benji Lovitt heats up the Pride Parade
Times of Israel blogger braves the weather and the multitudes to find out what makes Tel Aviv tick
By ToI Staff
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