Tel Aviv World's Most Gay Friendly City

[Federer]

Israel's LGBT community has a reason to be proud: It has officially been proclaimed the best gay travel destination of 2011.

In a world-wide survey conducted by GayCities.com and American Airlines, 43 percent of voters cast their ballot in favor of the White City, followed by New York City with 14 per cent, Toronto with 7 per cent, Sao Paulo with 6 per cent, Madrid and London with 5 per
cent each and New Orleans and Mexico City with 4 per cent each

The crowning title of Best City was just one of the categories included in the competition of gay destinations. New York scored top votes for Best Night Life, San Francisco took Best Pride, Paris won Best Food and Seattle got Best Settle Down City. The smaller city of Buffalo took in quite a few votes itself, and was declared Best Up and Coming City.

Tel Aviv has always been known as a gay-friendly place, but it upped its presence around the world this year with a number of different activities, including its Tel Aviv Gay Vibe campaign, organized in coordination with the municipality's Ministry of Tourism.

About 5,000 gay tourists were recorded as visiting Tel Aviv last June for the annual Gay Pride Parade – 25 percent more than in 2010. Now that it's been voted best city, Tel Aviv can probably expect even more foreign visitors this June.

Tel Aviv declared world's best gay travel destination - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

 

[Machine]

Nice to read it, unlike rest Middle East...

 

[Federer]

Nice to read it, unlike rest Middle East...

What was Surprising that It was a Middle Eastern City.

Atleast Middle East has achieved something.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

...unlike rest Middle East...

Is it? I thought Iran was in the middle east, and they're all bi as far as we know from Farsi and Urdu poetry!

 

[Aktavist_KKWC]

Nice to know the Jewish state's capital city is the most gay friendly on the planet. Never knew Jewish law allows homosexuality.

 

[JanjaWeed]

Nice to know that there is a place in middle east which treats all humans with equal respect irrespective of their choice & preference.

 

[Aktavist_KKWC]

Nice to know that there is a place in middle east which treats all humans with equal respect irrespective of their choice & preference.

lol you think it's Israel, it's the opposite.

 

[JanjaWeed]

lol you think it's Israel, it's the opposite.

like what? this city is unfriendly to who?

 

[PteX]

Is it? I thought Iran was in the middle east, and they're all bi as far as we know from Farsi and Urdu poetry!

Homosexuality=Death in Iran.
Geographically we are indeed in the Middle East but Israel is not a Middle Eastern country.
It's like calling the Russians Asian because the continent is called Asia.

 

[Birbal]

So Seattle is the only truly gay-friendly city where gays live as normal people?

Nice to know the Jewish state's capital city is the most gay friendly on the planet. Never knew Jewish law allows homosexuality.

It doesn't. The most crazy parts of the Bible are those in the Torah, including the anti-homosexuality passages. But that's besides the point since most people of all religions accept that some of the passages in their holy books are outdated.

 

[Amuroray]

k.Means nothing when they treat about 5 million people as sub humans

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

uhhh, is this something to be proud of

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

Homosexuality=Death in Iran.
Geographically we are indeed in the Middle East but Israel is not a Middle Eastern country.
It's like calling the Russians Asian because the continent is called Asia.

That would be the official statute.

So, are you proud to be a European+- graft in someone else's land or what?

 

[Aktavist_KKWC]

It doesn't. The most crazy parts of the Bible are those in the Torah, including the anti-homosexuality passages. But that's besides the point since most people of all religions accept that some of the passages in their holy books are outdated.

Not in the case of the Jewish state. The whole existance of the zionist entity is based on God being an estate agent and giving the land to the Jews. They seem very sure on this but no so sure on homosexuality, strange that.

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like what? this city is unfriendly to who?

Forget the city the whole nation has been wiping people off the map. Israel does anything but respect people for who they are, it's an apartheid occupying state.

 

[JanjaWeed]

Forget the city the whole nation has been wiping people off the map. Israel does anything but respect people for who they are, it's an apartheid occupying state.

so you are trying to mix up two things here? issue you are trying to highlight has nothing to do with the topic in hand. it's do with the city of tel aviv & the ordinary people of tel aviv. not to do with the state of israel & the policy of the state!!