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international image. The programme Tel Aviv. 40 miles from the Gaza | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Strip. Less than an hour were's Tel Aviv. 40 miles from the Gaza | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
from the Western Wall. And is now one of the most gay friendly places | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
on earth. How has a city in the heart of the Middle East become | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
on earth. How has a city in the Bastian of sexual tolerance? Want of | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
the international icons tells me how Israelis are also religious and | :00:31. | :00:46. | |
Like OK Palestinians could not be more difference. In the Arab world, | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
being gay athlete is not that good. So being out and everybody knows | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
it, you will not have a normal And in the park where he used to | :00:57. | :01:14. | |
cruise for sex, the 30th generation rabbi is redefining what it is to be | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
gay and Jewish. The fact that there is a spiritual group of people who | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
wanted to be clear and experience This is a site of Israel that few | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
would recognise and a city that This is a site of Israel that few | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Gay pride has come to town. It is my first event. I sense they are not | :01:32. | :02:08. | |
all like this. Where are we running first event. I sense they are not | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
all like this. Where are we running too? The car.A colourful, crazy | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
up with an orthodox lesbian friend collection. Just struggling to | :02:19. | :02:38. | |
up with an orthodox lesbian friend who is on a mission. Red, orange, | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
yellow, green, where is green? Green who is on a mission. Red, orange, | :02:39. | :02:50. | |
yellow, green, where is green? Green has gone. Gay Hasidic Jews. Is it | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
possible to be religious orthodoxy Protesters. If you are a straight | :02:55. | :03:11. | |
talking gay or a female looking lesbian, it is wonderful in Israel. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Everybody thinks you are awesome. completely by Nellie, your life | :03:16. | :03:27. | |
Everybody thinks you are awesome. living hell. An optimistic explosion | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
of colour with an undercurrent of politics. Kitsch and camp. Orthodox | :03:29. | :03:43. | |
and secular. And to make it even more dizzying, all of this has | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
exploded in the past couple of accident. The city's now has set out | :03:46. | :03:57. | |
to revamp a Tel Aviv as a Bastian of gay freedom. This is the venue that | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
You put a lot of deliberate effort into this. You spent a lot of money | :04:04. | :04:16. | |
to promote this in Israel and around into this. You spent a lot of money | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
to promote this in Israel and around the world. This has been a policy. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
The plan is working. These are How much has he spent promoting | :04:22. | :04:42. | |
The plan is working. These are arguably the most gay friendly | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
square miles in Israel. And for arguably the most gay friendly | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
distance beyond this country's drawing a crowd of 100,000. A fifth | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
credentials abroad, the Mary even dispatched some of Israel's most gay | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
men to other places around the world to publicise Our World —— Tel Aviv. | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
But it has not always been a pink paradise. Away from the parade, | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
But it has not always been a pink have come to Tel Aviv University, to | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
instrumental in transforming gay rights in Israel. Professor. Yes. | :05:23. | :05:37. | |
Chemistry professor was the Evan is an unlikely human rights you are. —— | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
hero. More than 200 of them. It an unlikely human rights you are. —— | :05:40. | :05:50. | |
probably the fastest mechanical device on earth. It can open and | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
millionths of a second. I hear there is a waiting list. No, just one | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
year. Do I have to wait a year?You will have to wait more, because | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
year. Do I have to wait a year?You do not have a scientific need for | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
it. I have HECS Ian chemistry. OK. His place goes back to the early | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
nuclear scientist in the army. Until nuclear scientist in the army. Until | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
his sexuality got in the way. I nuclear scientist in the army. Until | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
to handle sensitive material. When they found out that I am gay, I | :06:30. | :06:41. | |
to handle sensitive material. When discharged without any way to debate | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
I was deeply hurt. I believed that I it or argue with it or explained it. | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
I was deeply hurt. I believed that I was useful for them. I enjoyed it. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
How did they find out? Periodically was useful for them. I enjoyed it. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
How did they find out? Periodically they have to check your security | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
man. That was all it took. And at clearance. A neighbour downstairs | :07:00. | :07:12. | |
man. That was all it took. And at the time, in the early 1980s, apart | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
from the army was a difficult place to be gay? Horribly difficult. | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
People were subject to a years of imprisonment. There was constant | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
police harassment. Society regarded it as something that was bad. You | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
could not come out, you would pay such a heavy price. Ten years after | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
his discharge, he decided to tell his story to the Israeli Parliament. | :07:44. | :07:58. | |
against it. They carried my speech in every newspaper. I had a good | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
story to tell. Because we are gay, we are marginalised. The Labour | :08:06. | :08:23. | |
sympathetic. Laws changed. And now the army claims to be the most gay | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
serve. This photograph was posted on serve. This photograph was posted | :08:31. | :08:44. | |
for a gay people. They have jobs Facebook. There are some jobs in | :08:44. | :09:02. | |
for a gay people. They have jobs promoting gay people. Why would | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
honey traps as well. Maybe some know what a honey trap is? They | :09:04. | :09:13. | |
Besides the military and political Arabian scientists have suppressed | :09:13. | :09:38. | |
Besides the military and political battles, there was another unlikely | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
figure who gave the gay figure a seminal push. —— movement. Parking | :09:41. | :10:01. | |
Everybody is going to the Jaffa wharf. An industrial place. To see | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
one of the biggest names in the International —— Eurovision Song | :10:08. | :10:23. | |
Contest. It might be 15 years since she won Eurovision. But she can | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
Her 1998 Eurovision victory was cited as a key milestone in the | :10:25. | :10:47. | |
In the slightly less glamorous representing Israel, but winning. | :10:47. | :11:34. | |
gay people here. It is surprising to the world. Israel is a religious | :11:34. | :11:48. | |
country. Along with that, Israel is community. It is unbelievable that | :11:48. | :11:57. | |
Israel suffers from such a bad name. religious, riding camels and reading | :11:57. | :12:09. | |
beautiful picture that you paint. But there are clearly part of Israel | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
that there are is discrimination. People say that it was not until the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
1990s. You are flattering me. I People say that it was not until the | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
supposed to say yes, it is all because of me. But it is not like | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
that, I am telling you. Since I because of me. But it is not like | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
13 years old, we have always had gay years old. You have to understand, | :12:32. | :12:46. | |
the secular tolerance, Israel is different to the orthodox Israel. Do | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
you have friends in the Arab world? Yes. I love Arab boys. They are | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
you have friends in the Arab world? and competitive. There are more | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
masculine. Do you think this could process? Sex process. Thank you | :13:06. | :13:21. | |
masculine. Do you think this could much. It seems like a good moment to | :13:21. | :13:21. | |
International. For all the carefree much. It seems like a good moment to | :13:21. | :13:40. | |
International. For all the carefree head and is in of pride, Israel | :13:40. | :13:52. | |
—— hedonism. Two people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a gay | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
youth centre. But it was the outcry afterwards, from the PM downwards, | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
it was just as notable. Suggesting that the incident was an exception | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
to public opinion, not an indication of it. In fact, some of the voices | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
around this come from within the gay community itself. Angry that the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
politicians to show that Israel community itself. Angry that the | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
morally superior to its name, —— Tel Aviv University professor calls | :14:27. | :14:43. | |
this pink washing. A professor he may be, but he is having a little | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
trim before at pride. —— Pride. may be, but he is having a little | :14:52. | :15:04. | |
the one hand, having the Palestinian question, but on the other hand | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
If we take tomorrow's events, is that pink washing? Or is that a | :15:11. | :15:29. | |
community showing its own confidence that pink washing? Or is that a | :15:29. | :15:54. | |
Understandably, for some people question is the big dominant thing. | :15:54. | :16:21. | |
And, if gay rights are being used as a political tool for that, against | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
what you believe in, if they are being used to take peoples attention | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
away from the occupied territories, then that will make it hard if you | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
are gay to celebrate gay rights here. It will leave a bitter taste | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
President Obama said his best wishes to Pride, but will there be any | :16:40. | :17:01. | |
offers of support from Israel's immediate neighbours? I sent the | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
Egyptian press office and e—mail to see if they might be wishing Tel | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Aviv gay pride would luck for this week? —— good luck. The line has | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
gone dead. So, nothing back from Egypt, Jordan said they would get | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
back to me, and haven't done that. Nothing from Palestinian authority, | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
nothing from Lebanon and no messages of goodwill for gay pride from any | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
not great to be gay in the Arab of Israel's neighbours. While it is | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
not great to be gay in the Arab world, to some extent it is nuanced. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
talk about his experience. We found they route. —— mine, and a route. | :17:45. | :18:17. | |
talk about his experience. We found anonymity preserved. So we will | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
talk about his experience. We found identify him. We'll call him Ahmed. | :18:21. | :18:32. | |
do you need to keep your identity secret? Firstly, because of my | :18:32. | :18:43. | |
community. You know? In the Arab world, being gay out plea is not | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
good. Being out and everyone knows about you, you will not have a | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
normal life in an Arab city. What do you mean by not having a normal | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
the Arab world, you know in general it is a shame. And a shame thing in | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
our country will the Arab world it is a shame. And a shame thing in | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
experience of other gay people you know in the Palestinian territories? | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
How has it been for them with their families and communities? Most of | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
them, they are not out. They don't tell their families. Sometimes they | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
travel abroad to study and they tell their families. Sometimes they | :19:32. | :19:44. | |
Apart from your family, does anyone are gay? No. No.What would happen | :19:44. | :19:55. | |
Some people think would not talk to to you or your family? What would | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
Some people think would not talk to me any more. Not because they hate | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
or think it is a bad thing, but because they think it will affect | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
step back. It would have been quite because they think it will affect | :20:08. | :20:26. | |
step back. It would have been quite something at the sexual revolution | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
really crossed the cultural and something at the sexual revolution | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
physical barriers between here and the West Bank. Israel itself remains | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
This is an alternative summit run by a gay man who is trying to reinvent | :20:38. | :21:20. | |
A gay Orthodox Jew from a dynasty of 37 generations of rabbis, this | :21:20. | :21:49. | |
man's homosexuality alienating him from his community. Now, he is | :21:49. | :22:00. | |
leading a group of gay and lesbian Jews in worship. This has been the | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
for as long as anyone can remember. primary cruising site in Tel Aviv | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
for as long as anyone can remember. In my teens, before online dating | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
and before a happy courage to go out to the few gay places that were | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
here, this is where I would come. With a great deal of terror. Wide | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
there was a conflict between Huay as With a great deal of terror. Wide | :22:23. | :22:54. | |
there was a conflict between Huay as a religious Ju, and to who I am | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
there was a conflict between Huay as someone who is attracted to my own | :22:55. | :23:12. | |
religious Jew. I chose Faure few years to take my tip are off, —— | :23:12. | :23:25. | |
kippah. And now you are leading years to take my tip are off, —— | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
religious group. It is quite a journey. Yes, watching the parade | :23:32. | :23:42. | |
today, this was not possible 20 years ago. This is for people who | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
want to be queer and experience their spirit in a very new and | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
creative Jewish way. To try and build a circle for all of them | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
For a country so often in the news, Israel has the capacity to confound | :24:01. | :24:22. | |
to be one big party, the politics is expectations. While it might appear | :24:22. | :24:36. | |
to be one big party, the politics is attention. It might be hard to infer | :24:36. | :24:36. | |
wider, regional invocations from the attention. It might be hard to infer | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
wider, regional invocations from the organically and with deliberate | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
effort, to become an intriguing organically and with deliberate | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
effort, to become an intriguing microcosm of tolerance in the heart | :24:45. | :24:45. |