LGBT Rights in Israel - LGBT Rights Movement in Israel

LGBT Rights Movement in Israel

See also: LGBT social movements

Since the 1970s there has been an active gay rights movement that has often affiliated itself with the Israeli feminist movement and various liberal and social democratic political parties.

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