Lapid spoke at an event of the LGBTQ youth organization Iggy: "We need to shout no less loudly than the LGBTQB fans"

For the first time, an Israeli prime minister is participating in an official event of the LGBTQ community. Lapid said at the event to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the organization that the fear of a social revolution in the field must be put to an end: "We owe it to Shira Banki and to every boy or girl in the periphery who feels they have to hide a terrible secret."

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08/27/2022

Saturday, August 27, 2022, 9:39 p.m. Updated: 10:03 p.m.

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid arrived this evening at an event marking the 20th anniversary of the LGBTI youth organization Iggy, at the Opera House in Tel Aviv. Lapid noted from the stage of the event that he was "the first prime minister to come to an event of the gay community." On the question of why Israeli politicians are blocking what he called a "revolution Socially important and just. He answered: They are afraid.

78 percent are with us, but they rattle off the remaining 22."

According to him, it's time to put an end to this. "We owe it to Shira Banki.

We owe it to Nir and Liz from the youth bar.

We owe it to every boy or girl on the periphery who is scared and feels like they have to hide a terrible secret.

We need to hug them and tell them we are with them."

"Every person has the right to be a parent and start a family."

Yair Lapid at Iggy's event, August 27, 2022 (photo: official website, Elad Gutman)

Lapid said in his speech that "no less than 78% of the public in Israel support LGBT marriage.

They have no problem with a family of father and father or mother and mother." The conclusion, according to him, is that "the vast majority of the people of Israel, in the south, center and north, the voters of most parties, Yesh Atid voters and Likud voters and even a large part of the religious, agree with the basic and just principle Next: Every person has the basic right to be a parent and start a family."

The Iggy association, which was established 20 years ago, works throughout the country for the empowerment of girls and youth from the gay community in educational settings and outside of them. It deals with the development of settings that provide youth with a safe environment, and works for two A conversation between heterosexual youth and LGBTQ youth.

The association also engages in research on issues related to proud youth.

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Most of the public in Israel have no problem with a family of father and father or mother and mother.

The Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, June 10, 2022 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Lapid shared his personal experiences and said: "At our Shabbat table, in my house, like in many families in Israel, sits my wonderful niece Noga, together with her equally wonderful partner Little (both are here today). Next to them sit Yoav's sons, with his fiancee Shai. There is no reason in the world for Noga and Little to have less rights than Yoav and Shai. We are going to change that."

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