(Live here with the LGBT community) - According to the index of pride in local authorities conducted for the 4th year by the Association for the LGBT in Israel and submitted this week (16/5/23) to the President of the State Yitzhak Herzog, Haifa shows a significant drop in a short period of time, from fourth place to 12th place in the ranking.
Compared to the magnificent drop of Haifa, Kiryat Bialik actually climbed from the 9th place where it was placed last year, to the 7th place this year. The Carmel Coast Regional Council maintained its ranking from last year and remained in 20th place, and Carmel Castle participated for the first time in the index report.
The report sought to evaluate the policies of the local authorities in regards to the services they provide to the gay community, and the purposes it offers to the members of the community in the municipal space, when this year a record number of municipalities, regional and local councils and localities were examined - 85 in total, and the goal, in the end, is to reach any of the authorities in Israel.
The role of the index is to raise the priority of engagement with the gay community at the local level, by looking at the following areas - education, infrastructure for the activities of the gay community, welfare, visibility in public spaces and culture - in each of which there are many and ongoing interfaces between the authority and the residents in their day-to-day lives.
regarding Haifa municipality It was stated in the report that the city continues to work on behalf of the gay community, where, among other things, the community center for pride and tolerance is an urban center that provides social, therapeutic and cultural services to the community, and in the last year promotes active participation of the community in the city in order to provide a more accurate response to the needs of the immigrants. However, in the ranking Overall, as mentioned, Haifa dropped in the ranking significantly, reaching only 12th place, this after her previous son took the respectable 4th place.
Kiryat Bialik She actually climbed the list when she was ranked seventh, when the previous year she was in ninth place. The index states that Kiryat Bialik municipality jumped to the top of the index with impressive progress in working with the gay community. You can see a significant change in all areas - in education, in the therapeutic areas, structural changes in the municipality and an abundance of cultural events. The municipality works in cooperation with the gay community and encourages it Carmel Beach Regional Keeps its place and is ranked 20th like last year. The index states that the Carmel Coast Regional Council demonstrates a significant increase in action for the gay community. The council places emphasis on the training of the educational teams and the expansion of the existing therapeutic services, holds cultural events throughout the council and this year inaugurated an authorized LGBT center as part of a gender equality center.
Regarding the municipality of Tirat Carmel, which is participating in the index for the first time, it was noted that it presents important and initial efforts in starting work with the gay community, currently in limited arenas. The municipality has mapped the needs of the community and is in the midst of building a plan for the community.
Fall or achievement? good week
It would be interesting if more topics are checked every year and rated. For example, the attitude towards the disabled, the elderly, the isolated...
I'm also poor, I've tried for years to get active - but it's a big mess, everything gets canceled every time, I'm fed up, it's not serious
It's all failed management for years, it's good that he left there, I hope the new management will do something Kivinimat
There are some serious problems. First, the location of the community center is very hostile. It's gorgeous. Such stairs that go down into a grove are very uninviting and very lonely. Second, Beit HaKhilolot really did not market in Haifa as it should, for example I did not receive in my mailbox not even one advertisement in 8 years about Beit HaKhilolot and we live in Carmel. The groups that were established were not good, did not last, not like in our time when it was gay and such and were more therapeutic. My friends and I have asked many times that we want to do activities there, but they have never responded to us. The feeling was that it is more something suitable for very young people at the beginning and really not for the older and veteran community of Haifa, it's a real shame. The only good thing was the parades. Mebes very much hopes that the new management will lead to a new era. You will learn from Hatev Bialik, dozens of trips, events, lectures, equal, equal, very equal.
But why are you surprised, Bialik tries to take over the LGBT Bialik that was established two years ago and there is an amazing man there who does a crazy job, every week an event every week an action every month a trip
I was once very active in the community
5 years Beit Hachamah - did not contact me once, come to the activity, post on the page and that's it
I know there was activity but I didn't feel the home was active at all, and even when I approached with a desire to do things I was never answered
Very disgusting
Even those who rise up don't rise up in Haifa...
Which Arab councils and municipalities were tested and what score did they receive?
Make a surprised face that no one?
correct question
"gay community"
what's the point ? isolate or integrate. If the goal is to integrate, why do you need special services? Can you point me to a problem that hasn't been solved yet? Serious question. No hand waving of problems. Examples please.
Excellent question and I'm glad to have the opportunity to answer.
Teenagers with difficulty with their gender identity and/or their sexual orientation find it difficult to integrate into normative youth systems and need adapted interventions aimed at them.
Old women and elders from the community do not fit into hetero-normative torture, and do not turn to regular systemic assistance, due to a lack of trust formed during the years of experiencing oppression and persecution, therefore they need unique torture.
LGBT families where the parents or the children from the community need special counselors to help with their special challenges.
An LGBT culture that presents the possibility of normalizing differences in orientation and gender is really needed.
All these needs and more are the result of many millennia and it will take time, even if the world were completely liberal today, until they are unnecessary and the gender and tendency differences are trivial.
In addition to our regret, there is a continuing need for legal and physical protection against discrimination, persecution and abuse of LGBT people in general and trans people in particular.
You won't convince him that he should just accept your words.
As long as high cognitive processes that have characterized us for thousands of years continue to exist on the same track - the normative person will not be able to maintain an attentive sequence when reading texts with dots or slashes in the middle of a word.
And on a personal note, as long as trans men demand to be treated as women, I as a woman will disappear harder.
And by the way, discrimination, not discrimination
Fall or achievement? Depends on what glasses you look at...
It should be remembered that Haifa is a city that accepts many Arabs and Haredim into its territory, so it makes sense that the number of beneficiaries there will decrease and as a result the service for them will also decrease.