We performed the Gay Pride march in Jerusalem's colorful Gay Pride Parade was held in Jerusalem on Thursday, while three demonstrations against religious and extreme right, were called to protest the event.
Some two thousand people gathered in the afternoon at the Independence Park in the center of the city in a place decorated with colorful flags of rainbow colored balloons and banners calling for equal rights for lesbian, gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT).
Fifteen hundred police officers, more security forces, protecting the participants of the event, the eighth of its kind in Jerusalem.
This year the parade took a different route than usual. "We have decided to march to the Knesset, to claim our right to equality, because we are all equal, but not against the law," said Amit Lev, a spokesman for the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance.
Lev complaint that members of your community "can not marry, or adopt or do anything as partners" in this country.
Very close to the Independence Park in the Paris market, dozens of right-wing activists protesting the gay parade and hoped its passage carrying placards that read messages like "Perverts, outside Jerusalem," or "Gays, go away to hell ", reported Ynet news service.
The meeting between the two groups was uneventful due to the heavy presence of officials of the security forces.
The march was led by the radical right leaders, such as Marcel Baruch, who told the media that homosexuality is a disease voluntarily "and that members of that community" are intended to infect others "with her.
On the other hand, in the religious neighborhood of Mea Shaarim, about a hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews called by Rabbi Yosef Elyashiv Lithuanian also demonstrated against the Pride Day celebration.
A third protest against the gay parade was held at the central bus station. This meant incorporating a parade of donkeys, in order to compare these with the gay community, but participation of the animals was not authorized by the police.
Source: Reuters and own sources
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