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Gay, Religious, and Proud in Tel Aviv

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Among the marchers in Tel Aviv's Pride Parade are two inconspicuous but subversive groups: Havruta, the organization for religious gay men, and Bat Kol, the organization for religious lesbian women.

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“Pinkwashing”—the calculated exploitation by Israel’s government of the LGBTQ community’s hard-won civil and social gains as a beard for the human rights abuses of the occupation—is a thing.

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