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Several Thousand Take Part in Jerusalem Gay Pride
About 2,000 people took part in an annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday which passed off without major incident even though it had been the focus of violent controversy in the past.
Surrounded by about the same number of police, the marchers set off for the kilometre-long (half-mile) parade in central Jerusalem, holding aloft rainbow banners. "We want this parade to go ahead without violence," said Yonathan Leibowicz, of the Jerusalem Open House organisation which organised the event.
At least 2,000 people marched Thursday in Jerusalem's gay pride parade. The event, which has repeatedly riled religious city residents and caused friction in the past, was mostly uneventful.
Some two hours before the parade, police detained a haredi man for holding an insulting sign against the parade. Several hundred demonstrators protested the parade in Kikar Hashabbat, far from the event's route. Several dumpsters were set ablaze in haredi neighborhoods...
The Club Nur dance floor starts early and doesn't stop til after the lights come on at 2am. We do play mostly Middle Eastern music and dance mixes, and our crowd that has a lot of non-Middle Easterners (see pics above) as well loves dancing and shaking their hips to it. There are always those who steal the show and it's a lot of fun watching them too.