(JEWISH GROUP) There is no Pride in excluding Queer Jews
The first time I went back into a Jewish school to speak as an openly queer Jew, it felt like progress: LGBTQIA Jews no longer having to hide one part of ourselves within communities of belonging.
I left school in 2002, one year before Section 28 was repealed. For my entire education, teachers were banned from “promoting homosexuality,” which in practice meant silence: no language, no role models, no reassurance that being Jewish and queer was not a contradiction.
Years later, representing KeshetUK, I spoke with Jewish pupils about being young, Jewish and queer. That conversation happened somewhere that, when I was younger, would have found it almost impossible.
Pride, at its best, should do the same thing. It should say: come as you are. Not as the world finds you convenient. Not as the politics of others require you to be.
In Rome, Pride organisers have refused the participation of Keshet Italia for not taking their stance or accepting Roma Pride’s characterisation of Israel’s war with Hamas. Participation required a “clear and unequivocal stance condemning the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli government.”
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Whatever happened to "intersectionality"?!
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