LGBTQ

A person looks at the Grindr app on her mobile phone in Beirut, Lebanon, May 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

March 25, 2023, 5:20 am

LGBTQ dating app Grindr warns Egyptian users of police targeting

Company says cops in Muslim nation impersonating community members to catch and prosecute individuals

By AP

Ari Shapiro behind the microphone as host of NPR's 'All Things Considered.' (Stephen Voss/NPR)

March 21, 2023, 10:15 pm

NPR’s Ari Shapiro reports on lessons learned behind the microphone – and in print

New memoir gives the inside scoop behind the familiar voice from ‘All Things Considered’ news program, the people he’s met during his career and his passion for performing

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, on 34th and Lexington. The all-male campus counterpart is in Morningside Heights. (Julia Gergely/JTA)

March 16, 2023, 11:24 pm

NY lawmakers lash Yeshiva University for demanding private info of LGBTQ club members

University’s lawyers request personal details including medical, employment records from Pride students in legal battle; state lawmakers call move ‘ethically reprehensible’

By Luke Tress

Comedian Judy Gold hosted A Wider Bridge's annual gala on March 13, 2023, which celebrated Israel at 75 and addressed growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment with the new government coalition elected in January. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

March 16, 2023, 2:19 am

With Israel’s right-wing government, US Zionist LGBTQ group faces urgent crisis

After advocating for Israel in the American gay community for years, A Wider Bridge faces an impasse as the Jewish state’s new coalition includes proudly homophobic politicians

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Illustrative: A Yeshiva University building in New York City, January 13, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

February 28, 2023, 9:27 pm

NYC official: Yeshiva University public funds at risk due to LGBTQ policy

Funding for flagship Modern Orthodox university is increasingly under scrutiny as it argues it is legally a religious institution to avoid recognizing student Pride group

By Luke Tress

A television cameraman works near a tribute to the victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub painted on the side of a downtown commercial building Nov. 23, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP/David Zalubowski)

February 23, 2023, 4:51 am

Colorado LGBTQ club shooting suspect ran neo-Nazi website, officer tells court

Anderson Lee Aldrich hosted site that included training video on attacking synagogues, used anti-gay slurs online, detective says at hearing on possible hate crime charges

By COLLEEN SLEVIN

LGBTQ activists in Lebanon shout slogans as they march calling on the government for more rights in the country gripped by economic and financial crisis during ongoing protests in Beirut, Lebanon on June 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

February 22, 2023, 12:56 am

Mideast governments targeting LGBTQ people online, rights group says

Report documents dozens of cases of security agencies in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia extorting members of LGBTQ community based on their social media activities

By Kareem Chehayeb

Channel 12 News reporter Yair Cherki reports live from the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, as tens of thousands of people arrive for a final forgiveness prayer, early on Oct. 4, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

February 16, 2023, 3:27 am

Cherki wins wide support from across political spectrum after coming out as gay

Prominent journalist is famous for reporting on ultra-Orthodox and bringing viewpoints to secular homes; now he wants Haredi community to understand his sexual orientation

By Ron Kampeas

Channel 12 news reporter Yair Cherki at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 4, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

February 14, 2023, 11:50 pm

Prominent Orthodox Israeli journalist Yair Cherki comes out as gay

‘I tremble as I write these words,’ Channel 12 religious affairs reporter writes in a Facebook post that quickly goes viral; ‘I love men and God, and this isn’t contradictory’

By Jacob Magid

Publicist Howard Bragman poses for a photo on Dec. 17, 2008, in Long Beach, California (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

February 13, 2023, 8:48 am

Hollywood publicist, crisis relations specialist Howard Bragman dies at 66

Says he felt like a martian growing up as a ‘fat, Jewish, gay kid’; clients included Monica Lewinsky, Cameron Diaz, Sharon Osbourne; was activist for LGBTQ rights, Jewish causes

By Lindsey Bahr

Noam party leader Avi Maoz at a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 10, 2023, 9:08 pm

Far-right deputy minister’s bill would bar teaching sex orientation before 9th grade

Avi Maoz’s legislation would then only allow lessons on sexual and gender identity if principal signs off, 75% of parents consent and all students do too

By ToI Staff

Jewish leaders from across Missouri came to Jefferson City to testify and lobby against various bills that would restrict the rights of trans people. (Courtesy of Daniel Bogard via JTA)

February 10, 2023, 2:09 am

Missouri Jewish leaders advocate for trans rights at state legislature

Activists protest laws that would limit options for transgender children and censor discussion in schools, citing biblical adage that all humans are created in God’s image

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Klaus Schirdewahn (C R), representative of the LGBTQ community, receives applause during the annual ceremony in memory of Holocaust victims and survivors in the plenary hall of the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament, in Berlin on January 27, 2023, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)

January 27, 2023, 1:26 pm

In a first, German parliament spotlights Nazis’ LGBTQ victims

Jewish community, Yad Vashem welcome move to broaden Germany’s remembrance culture during a ceremony on International Holocaust Memorial Day

By Deborah Cole

Pope Francis speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Vatican, January 24, 2023. (AP/Andrew Medichini)

January 25, 2023, 7:37 pm

Pope: Homosexuality not a crime, church should fight ‘unjust’ anti-LGBTQ laws

Francis’s remarks are a first for a pontiff, adds bishops should learn to apply ‘tenderness’ to all Catholics

By Nicole Winfield

Illustration of an empty classroom in a school in Mevaseret Zion, August 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 24, 2023, 2:52 pm

Transgender boy to be removed from religious school against parents’ wishes

Parents of 8-year-old and those of classmates say they’ve been informed of decision to send him to a different school, but Education Ministry denies anything has been resolved

By ToI Staff