LGBTQ Israelis are reeling from the hostility they sense from their new government and at the fragility of the laws protecting them
The minister holding the country’s purse strings calls himself a «proud homophobe». Another minister says Pride parades are «vulgar», while a deputy minister who wants to cancel them was just given power over some aspects of what schoolchildren are taught. And then there are the lawmakers who want doctors to be able to decline medical care to LGBTQ people.
These are all members of the new Israeli government helmed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and their extreme anti-LGBTQ sentiment has unnerved LGBTQ Israelis and their allies at home and overseas, forward.com reports.
