Tag Archives: Tel Aviv

Mission America founder Linda Harvey is very upset about my post characterizing her as saying the murder victims in Tel Aviv got what they deserved for being at a gay event. If you have landed here from the “joemygod” blog, you now need a dose of reality –unless you are one of the deranged people actually wishing harm to Linda …

Linda Harvey, the founder of Mission America, one of the viciously anti-gay groups that opposes the Day Of Silence in public schools, has issued a statement about the Tel Aviv murders. After a rote sentence denouncing the murders, Harvey launches into complaints that gay groups are blaming religious extremists. “[I]t is deplorable this incident is already being used by the …

Memorial vigils for the victims of the shooting at an LGBT center in Tel Aviv will take place around the U.S. this week. San Francisco: Tonight. Monday, from 530-6 @ Congregation Sha’ar Zahav (16th/Dolores — the largely LGBT Synagogue) and marching to the LGBT Center by 6:30 p.m. for a vigil (Market/Octavia). (Via SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty) Washington DC: Tonight. …

Bronski Beat, Why, 1984. This song seems especially appropriate for this weekend. Contempt in your eyes as I turn to kiss his lips. Broken I lie, all my feelings denied. Blood on your fist. Can you tell me why? You in your false securities. Tear up my life, condemning me. Name me an illness, call me a sin. Never feel …

The speaker says, in part: “I came here to show my support for those who live in the proud gay community and are grieving over their dead. I hope that this terrible day will also give you strength and mark a turning point. This day should give children the strength to tell their parents ‘I’m gay’. This day should give …

“They are shooting at us. The loaded gun is aimed not only at gay and lesbian teenagers at a weekly meeting, and not only at the gay community, but rather, at all those who fear the next time, and it shall come. Make no mistake about it, this despicable act will grant many others the opportunity to swear and threaten …

A massive manhunt is underway in Tel Aviv for the masked man who opened fire at the city’s LGBT center yesterday, killing three youths and wounding eleven more. Hundreds of police officers scoured the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday in a manhunt for a gunman who shot and killed three people at a youth club in the worst ever …

At 5pm Israeli time today there will be demonstrations in several cities. I’ll have photos later today. There will be another protest on Tuesday in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. A Facebook support group is here. Dr. Michael Brown, the “messianic Jewish conservative leader” who organized last week’s anti-gay protest of gay Pride in Charlotte, North Carolina, has issued a press …

Horrible news: A gunman sprayed automatic fire at an Israeli club for gay teenagers on Saturday, killing two people and wounding at least eight, police and witnesses said. The shooting spree in central Tel Aviv set off a citywide security clampdown, reviving memories of Palestinian attacks that have ebbed in recent years. But a police spokesman said that the incident …

Tel Aviv will be the site of Israel’s first memorial to the gay victims of the Nazis. Three iron panels, each 5 meters wide and deep, and partially buried, will form a 3-dimensional triangular pit, from which light will stream. Names of the registered homosexual Nazi victims will be inscribed inside in Hebrew, though the actual number of victims and …