WorldPride, take two: the WorldPride festival will arrive in Jerusalem this August after its sudden cancellation last year. What a difference a year has made.(PRIDE)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 20-JUN-06

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The city of Tel Aviv has canceled its annual gay pride parade--the Middle East's largest, with over 100,000 participants--and shifted its support to Jerusalem's long-delayed WorldPride festival, a series of LGBT marches, rallies, parties, and cultural events held every half-decade, the first WorldPride having taken place in Rome in 2000. Tel Aviv will host an apres-WorldPride beach party and provide shuttle service to the Jerusalem events. "After what happened last year, we...

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