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(Jini) Last update - 12:49 07/06/2008 10 years on, Gay Pride Parade still gets Tel Aviv dancing By Hannah Glass Tags: Gay Pride festival, Tel Aviv  Think rainbow colors, funky music and dancing in the streets -the annual Gay Pride Parade once again gives the streets some glamor on June 6. Think rainbow colors, funky music and dancing in the streets -the annual Gay Pride Parade, now in its tenth year, once again lent glamor to the streets of Tel Aviv on Friday, June 6. Last year thousands of people attended the glitzy festival, a marked difference from the small gathering on Shenkin Street at the first annual Pride event way back in 1998. This year's event was funded by the local municipality and rainbow flags have been adorning the city's streets and boulevards for days. The parade began in Meir Park, just off King George Street, where Mayor Ron Huldai officially launched a new center designated for Tel Aviv's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual community. (The center has already been visited by around 400 people a week since it opened four months ago.) Advertisement Revisit past parades The route: Starting at Meir Park to Tchernichovsky Street then Bograshov Street and onto Ben Yehuda Street, where the main festivities will take place. The celebrations will eventually move down Ben-Gurion Boulevard and end up on the seafront at Gordon Beach. On the beach you can enjoy a host of live music performances from Ivri Lider, Maya Buskila and Keren Peles. Then, party on into the night! Bookmark to del.icio.us   Haniyeh's plea Hamas leader in Gaza says rocket fire must stop for sake of Palestinians. Softening position Shin Bet agrees to free prisoners 'with blood on their hands' for Shalit.   1.   Are there going to be parades celebrating other disorders? 21:10  |  MIKE 05/06/08   2.   mike grow up 23:09  |  David 05/06/08   3.   Mike, psycological associations can not identify it as a disorder 00:14  |  Tom 06/06/08   4.   #1 Yes, the Bigotry Parade by Haredim and FYI... 01:03  |  BB 06/06/08   5.   THIS IS WHY GOD IS ALLOWING A MURDEROUS NATION TO TAKE ISRAEL/US! 03:44  |  glenna 07/06/08   6.   Israel is suicidal 03:44  |  DRS 07/06/08   7.   # 4 NO IT`S CLASSIED AS A SIN THAT CARRIES A DEATH PENALTY! GET 04:15  |  glenna 07/06/08   8.   # 2 THE RIGHTEOUS ARE NOT EASILY OFFENDED;WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE 04:26  |  glenna 07/06/08   9.   # 3 NO IT`S JUST AN ABOMINABLE DISORDER;AND GOD IS A GOD OF ORDER 04:28  |  glenna 07/06/08   10.   This is why we lost to Hizbullah... 04:59  |  Danny 07/06/08   11.   To Glenna and friend 06:10  |  Jawad Ali 07/06/08   12.   Are these the people... 06:16  |  Michael 07/06/08   13.   10 years of Pride and yet ... 11:08  |  Daniel 07/06/08   14.   # 11 HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS WERE AT SODOM AND GOMORRAH WHO HAD YOUR 07:15  |  glenna 28/06/08

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