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16 May 2013
Canada: ‘Israeli apartheid’ censorship row puts Toronto Pride funding in jeopardy 52 Pride Toronto faces the loss of its annual cultural grant over indecision as to whether the phrase "Israeli apartheid" should be banned from the event, in a row which Peter Tatchell has called "straightforward censorship".
8 May 2013
Gay Israeli MP Nitzan Horowitz to run for mayor of Tel Aviv + Gay Israeli MP Nitzan Horowitz has formally announced his intention to run for mayor of Tel Aviv.
11 April 2013
Uruguay votes to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide 15 Uruguay is to become the 12th country in the world to make it legal for same-sex couples to marry nationwide after Congress ratified a bill passed last week in the Senate.
10 April 2013
Video: Israeli gay couple in YouTube plea for help to start a family 4 A gay couple in Israel have started a campaign, asking for help to start a family after spending their entire savings on several failed surrogacy and adoption attempts, as Israel forbids surrogacy for gay couples.
10 April 2013
Anti-gay US-born Israeli terrorist jailed for killing two Palestinians 7 A US-born West Bank settler, who previously suggested Molotov cocktails should be used at those taking part in a gay pride event, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two Palestinians.
19 March 2013
Video: Activists launch campaign against gay conversion therapy in Israel’s Orthodox Jewish neighbourhoods 4 Activists have put up anti-gay conversion therapy posters in some of Israel's most religious neighbourhoods.
19 February 2013
Israel: HIV cases among gay men up 55% since 2005 3 Figure show the number of gay men become HIV-positive in Israel has increased by 55% since 2005.
23 January 2013
Israel: Anti-gay marriage Jewish Home party wins seats in general election 8 The Jewish Home party (Habayit Hayehudi), is predicted to have won 12 seats, less than was originally expected, in the Israeli general election held on Tuesday.
2 January 2013
Israel: Lesbian teenager attacked with stones in homophobic assault 7 A teenage lesbian has been reportedly attacked by a group of ultra-Orthodox students in central Israel.
26 December 2012
Israel: Party leader calls on state to stop recognising same-sex marriages 14 Naftali Bennett, the chairman of a minor Israeli party, The Jewish Home (Habayit Hayehudi) has said that Israel should stop recognising same-sex marriages and that he joked about a gay solider in his army unit "in good fun".
3 December 2012
Israel grants first divorce to gay married couple 11 For the first time, an Israeli court has granted the divorce of a gay couple, a move that may have widespread ramifications across the country.
25 September 2012
Audio: Iowa radio host announces agreement with Ahmadinejad on ‘gays are ugly’ comment 15 A radio presenter in Iowa kicked off his show this morning by discussing the issues surrounding President Ahmadinejad's visit to the US, and comments he made about Israel, to the US General Assembly, and homosexuality, on CNN.
21 September 2012
Israel: Lesbian couple awarded payout in landmark ruling 9 An Israeli lesbian couple is celebrating after a judge ruled that a wedding hall could not reject their custom.
7 September 2012
Israel: High rates of suicide among country’s LGBT youth 13 New research published this week in Israel has examined suicide rates among LGBT youth in the country.
22 June 2012
Israeli politician criticised over further anti-gay comments 35 Israeli politician Anastasia Michaeli has further attacked Israel's LGBT community amid wide-ranging condemnation and critique.
19 June 2012
Israeli politician: Army must not enlist gays 27 In an interview broadcasted yesterday in the parliamentary Knesset Channel, Member of Knesset Uri Ariel from the right-wing National Union party said that he is against the Israeli army's policy of enlisting LGBT people.
8 June 2012
In Photos: Tel Aviv Pride 2012 247 Tel Aviv today celebrated the largest pride in the Middle East with more than 100,000 people lining the streets and partying on the beach.
16 May 2012
Israeli parliament rejects gay and inter-faith civil marriage bill 68 Legislation for the option of civil marriage for Israeli citizens who cannot be wed via religious institutions, including same-sex marriage and marriages between members of different faiths, like Muslims and Jews, was rejected by the Israel parliament, or Knesset.
6 April 2012
Israeli committee to recommend legal surrogacy for gay couples 2 As a result of a gay couple's appeal to the High Court of Justice in Israel, a public committee which regulates issues around fertility and childbirth in Israel is to recommend changing current legislation on adoption, which excludes gay couples.
29 March 2012
Possible end to blood ban on gay men in Israel 4 In Israel next month, a Health Ministry advisory committee on transfusion medicine will consider whether to amend the clause that forbids gay men donating blood, following a similar change here in Britain.

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