Tel Aviv is a booming, bulging Mediterranean metropolis with a population that is mostly secular or mildly observant. (Merlin, by the way, does not march.)Īlthough Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are only 36 miles apart, there is a world of difference in their gay pride parades. I’m still marching, but now in the gay pride parades in Israel, ever since our family – my husband, Rabbi Donald Goor, I, and our cat Merlin – made aliyah in 2013. Marriage equality was not on the horizon and the AIDS pandemic was a few years away.įast forward almost 40 years. Those were the early days of gay pride (the first gay pride parade was held in 1970 in New York City) and many of us were inching our way out of those proverbial closets and coming to terms with issues of identity, coming out to families, and fighting discrimination at our jobs. ![]() ![]() The first time I participated in a gay pride parade was in 1981, when I marched with my mother as part of the contingent from PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).
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