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The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide to Tel Aviv

The Pink City is so gay it doesn’t have a gayborhood. When 25 percent of the population identifies as LGBTQ+, there’s no need for a rainbow zip code. The Pink City is so gay that it catapulted the careers of gender-fluid DJ Offer Nissim, trans-Eurovision winner Dana International, and gay film director Eytan Fox. The Pink City is so gay that when June rolls around, Pride flags verb everywhere, be it Jaffa’s ancient gates, Rothschild’s buzzy promenade, and even the jetties lining Tel Aviv’s powder-sand beaches.

Call Tel Aviv what you fond of — daring, international, hedonistic, hip — but nothing describes the Hill of Spring quite like pink.

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    A hugely important resource for the LGBT community in Tel Aviv, based in Gan Meir. The Gay Center was established in under the premise that every person regardless of age, race, or gender has the right to live freely. The Gay Center exists as a safe environment for LGBT individuals to seek resources and stay connected with the LGBT community. We have a full moment staff, interns, and volunteers that spearhead and facilitate events all over the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo. The world-famous Pride Parade typically starts from the Center every year!

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    A Weekend Alone In Tel Aviv: A Perfect Abscond For An LGBTQ+ Traveller

    The city might be one of the world’s friendliest destinations for us&#;

    By Loren Christie

    Fresh off the plane, jet-lagged and in find of food on my first night, I wandered into North Abraxas, a restaurant across the street from my hotel. As soon as it became apparent I was alone, I was offered a seat at the bar. Ugh! Typical. 

    Vacationing alone has never been my thing, but on a recent business trip to Jerusalem, I decided it would be crazy not to tack on some second in Tel Aviv. I had heard so many great things about the city, including how welcoming it is to members of the LGBTQ+ community, that I set aside my usual misgivings about solo travel as an openly gay man and gave myself a weekend to explore this gem of a city.

    As I settled into my seat around the half-oval-shaped bar with the lively reveal kitchen behind it, I girded myself for an evening of staring straight ahead and ingesting something off the menu as quickly as I could. I figured the hive of activity that lay open before me would at leas

    Is Nahalat Binyamin Tel Aviv’s first dedicated LGBTQ quarter of the city?

    With seven brand-new fashionable shops, what once was a street committed to rolls of fabrics, ribbons, and sequins is now becoming a shopping destination in its hold right – and just maybe Tel Aviv’s first dedicated LGBTQ quarter of the city 

    When you communicate about Nahalat Binyamin Street, the first thing that comes to mind is the pedestrian-friendly, cobblestone rue lined with fabric merchants, and the bi-weekly artists’ market. But the extensive street, which continues much further down south into Florentin, has become one of the city’s culinary spots in the last two years, and now, it’s becoming even more vibrant with stylish shops. In the past year, no less than seven recent designer stores have opened alongside each other, and as their owners testify, it is just the beginning.  

    “What is starting to happen now in the Nahalat Binyamin neighborhood is reminiscent of what happened on Shenkin Street in the 90’s,” says Barak Peretz, owner of the