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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump Smiles In Selfie with Pastor Who Calls LGBT People ‘Demonic’
What has blonde hair, walks on two feet, and says one thing but does another completely different thing? The same woman who waxed poetic about wanting companies to hire Americans while her clothing brand was made overseas by women and children who make the lowest of minimum wages,that’s who. In another hypocritical pursuit, Ivanka Trump…
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Community Can A Gay Man Sexually Harass A Woman?
I came out as gay almost twenty years ago, and as a greying man now in my late 60s, I never dreamed that I could be threatening to women. Women who know me know that I am not interested in them as objects of desire. I am happily and monogamously married to my husband, and…
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Life Hasidic Comedian Shows LGBTQ Support At Jerusalem Pride March
On Thursday, August 2, Hasidic comedian Yisrael Campbell left his home in Jerusalem and headed to the Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance. He’s been going since 2016, the year after ultra-Orthodox Jew Yishai Schlissel stabbed and murdered 16-year-old Shira Banki, and wounded six others at the parade. Campbell made his way to the memorial…
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Life During The AIDS Crisis, This Gay Jewish Cookbook Kept A Community Together
There’s a cookbook titled “Out of Our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco Gay Jewish Cooking.” It’s out of print. There are a few, remaining used copies floating around Amazon and eBay, but that’s it. The cover is colorful, a rainbow ending in piles of produce. This cookbook is the stuff of queer, hedonistic kitchen fantasy, chock…
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The Schmooze Ruby Rose Cast As CW’s Queer, Jewish Batwoman
The CW has crowned its newest Batwoman: model-actor Ruby Rose will take up the queer, Jewish mantle. Entertainment Weekly reports that Rose will make her first batty appearance in December, for an annual DC crossover event. A full-fledged “Batwoman” series is also currently in development. If the show is picked up, Rose will fly onto…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Murder Suspect Allegedly Targeted Him Because He Was Gay
(JTA) — The man accused of killing Blaze Bernstein will face a hate crime charge for targeting the college student because of his sexual orientation. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office in California announced the new charge against Samuel Woodward, 20, on Thursday. Bernstein was Jewish and gay. Bernstein’s body was found in January after…
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Fast Forward 200 Leading Rabbis Sign Letter Describing Gay People As ‘Perverts’
More than 200 leading rabbis published a letter condemning the idea of surrogacy and adoption for gays, describing homosexuals as “perverts,” The Jerusalem Post reported. In the letter, released Thursday, the rabbis wrote that “the aggressive terror which accompanies the media’s brainwashing” designed to “destroy the concept of family and turn perverts into heroes will…
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Fast Forward Israel Sees Nationwide LGBT Strike Over Homophobic Discrimination
An estimated 60,000 people attended a rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Sunday evening, capping a day of demonstrations and a partial strike around the country in support of equal rights for Israel’s LGBT population. The strike call and demonstrations were sparked by the amendment to the surrogacy law and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
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