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A helpful guide for Pride Week visitors to Tel-Aviv.

Beginning today, hundreds of thousands of visitors will descend on Israel’s cosmopolitan metropolis of Tel-Aviv, for the largest gathering of LGBT folks in the Middle East. In anticipation we lucked across some documents that hard working Israeli civil servants have produced to help visitors navigate their way through the city.

Tel AvivHaYarkon: Last Updated 5/26/2019 at 3:20 PM

Employees from the  Tel Aviv Municipality Tourism Office continue to distribute a helpful and informative pamphlet to our out-of-town visitors this week: Is He Gay or Just Being Israeli? A Visitor’s Guide to Pride Week 

Tourism Office Spokesperson Galit K. discussed the initiative with the Daily Freier as we walked along the HaYarkon Promenade.

Galit continued to explain the initiative:

Do you see the two men over there at the cafe?  One of these men owns Capri pants, loves to dance, has on a silver lycra tank top, and calls his mom twice a day…… And the other one is into dudes.

“We see this pamphlet as a true win-win. Sometimes visitors have a difficult time figuring things out here in Israel. So the city stepped in to help.”  Galit pointed toward several men in Speedos on the beach play-wrestling in the sand and grabbing each other.  “Do you see those men?  Now a visitor might have a preconceived notion, but they are in fact just Army buddies…..who clearly wax and pluck……and have an excess of hair gel and highlights…..and appear to be listening to Eyal Golan……OK, I see your point.”

Galit admitted that the Is He Gay or Just Being Israeli? campaign experienced a setback when the entire first batch of pamphlets were taken home to be read by frustrated and confused women who actually live in Tel Aviv, but that more pamphlets are on their way to hotels and hostels throughout the city. 

When the Daily Freier challenged Galit on recent reports that the Mossad is jamming the nation’s Gaydar, she quickly told us that she had another appointment and had to end the interview.

Republished from the Daily Freier.

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