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Pride Month

David Zini at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on August 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 23, 2026, 11:43 pm
Zini cancels Shin Bet Pride Month event, pulls budget from LGBTQ group – report
Event organizers reportedly not given reason for last-minute cancellation; employees said to decry move as departure from agency’s values of equality and inclusion
By Stav Levaton and Shira Silkoff
June 10, 2025, 10:00 pm
What Matters Now to Rabbi Noa Sattath: Global LGBTQ+ support for Hamas
For Pride Month, head of Association for Civil Rights in Israel reflects on the roll out of gay rights in Israel and the role the community can play in the fight for equal rights for all
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A supporter of Israel takes part in the New York City Pride March on June 30, 2024, in New York City. (Adam GRAY / AFP)
July 10, 2024, 3:02 am
Isolated by their ‘allies,’ LGBTQ Jews in US gather to parse Pride’s anti-Israel leanings
As supporters of the Jewish state feel increasingly unwelcome at events for the Queer community, they turn to each other for support, while mulling what feels like betrayal
By Cathryn J. Prince
The Pittsburgh Pride Parade 2024 makes it way across the Andy Warhol Bridge in downtown Pittsburgh on June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
June 22, 2024, 5:33 am
This Pride, queer US Jews are feeling the strain — and sometimes unsafe — over Israel
The increasingly popular view that anti-Zionism is a cause for the LGBTQ community to align with has isolated many of its Jewish members
By Andrew Lapin
Hostage Families Forum organizer Tom Barkai takes the lead at the annual Jerusalem Pride Parade on May 30, 2024, calling for the return of the captives held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
May 31, 2024, 3:43 am
War looms large over Jerusalem Pride as hostage families lead march
Bereaved son says ‘moral connection’ exists between struggles for LGBTQ equality and return of Hamas-held captives; participants boo far-right police minister checking in on march
By Charlie Summers
A participant faces riot policemen wearing a rainbow flag during a Pride march in Istanbul, on June 26, 2022. (KEMAL ASLAN / AFP)
May 18, 2024, 8:42 am
US issues global terror alert ahead of Pride Month, fearing attacks on LGBTQ+ community
State Department warns US citizens overseas to exercise caution; Blinken: Community faces ‘insidious forms of stigma and discrimination’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
BBYO teenagers at a Pride Month-themed summer leadership program, June 2022. (Courtesy of BBYO)
June 29, 2023, 4:45 am
BBYO’s Orlando convention plans pose a Florida conundrum for LGBTQ Jews and allies
The organization, which has 21,000 members across North America and more abroad, draws thousands of teens from all over the world to its events
By Andrew Lapin
File: Leader of the far-right Israeli group Lehava, Benzi Gopstein (R), seen at a press conference with his lawyer Itamar Ben Gvir, in Jerusalem on August 11, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
May 30, 2023, 1:10 pm
Daily Briefing May 30: Pride parade under threat as extremists’ ally heads security
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller Lynn on judicial overhaul & interview with protest leader Shikma Bressler; military reporter Emanuel Fabian on how Israel’s air force marked 75
By ToI Staff
Participants march during the 2022 New York Pride Parade in New York City on June 26, 2022. (Ed JONES / AFP)
June 27, 2022, 10:28 am
NYC Pride parade stampede after fireworks mistaken for gunfire; no serious injuries
Noise causes panic among revelers in Washington Square Park; organizers decry ‘dangerous’ US abortion ruling amid fears it could be start of broader push by court to curb freedoms
By AFP
A Norwegian national flag flutters over flowers and rainbow flags that are placed at the scene of a shooting in central of Oslo, Norway, June 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
June 27, 2022, 5:56 am
Terror suspect in deadly shooting at Oslo Pride festival refusing to speak with cops
At memorial service for victims, Norwegian PM says attack ‘did not stop the fight and the efforts to fight discrimination, prejudice and hatred’
By KOSTYA MANENKOV and JARI TANNER
Flowers are left at the scene of a shooting in central Oslo, June 25, 2022. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
June 25, 2022, 4:56 pm
Norway raises terror alert to highest level after deadly mass shooting near gay bar
Security chief calls attack that left 2 dead and over 20 wounded an ‘extreme Islamist terror act’; suspect has ‘long history of violence and threats’
By Maria Sanminiatelli and Karl Ritter
Norwegian police officers stand guard in the streets of central Oslo between security tape lines, on June 25, 2022, after shots were fired outside the London pub, killing two people. (Javad Parsa/NTB/AFP)
June 25, 2022, 8:06 am
2 dead, 21 hurt in Oslo terror attack near gay bar; suspect of Iranian descent held
10 in serious condition after gunman opens fire near London Pub club, jazz bar, takeaway food outlet; Pride parade canceled; suspect was known to domestic intelligence services
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Two men, one in an IDF uniform, seen removing a gay pride flag in northern Israel on June 23, 2022. (Screenshot)
June 24, 2022, 1:41 am
IDF disavows soldier filmed removing local government’s gay pride flag in north
Military says it doesn’t know identity of armed man who took down flag with another individual, pledges ‘matter will be examined and dealt with’
By ToI Staff
From Michael Liani's 'LGBTQ+ LOVE' photography project, Yael Rozin and Ayala Weiss and their children (Courtesy Michael Liani)
June 15, 2022, 3:01 pm
Photographer highlights queer love and families on Pride month
Michael Liani makes waves on Instagram with his ‘LGBTQ+ LOVE’ Israeli portrait series
By Jessica Steinberg
Thousands of people take part in the annual Pride Parade in Jerusalem, June 3, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 2, 2022, 6:39 am
Amid death threats, police on high alert for Jerusalem pride parade
More than 2,400 officers deployed; police identify 180 potential attackers after several lawmakers, organizer of event receive death threats referencing Shira Banki’s murder
By ToI Staff
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