This year’s parade features a new participant, the British Embassy, which will host a float in the parade that celebrates LGBT families.The theme of this year’s parade is “bisexual visibility.”“The theme makes a difference. It makes the discussion in the public domain much more deep,” Efrat Tolkowsky, a Tel Aviv City Council member responsible for LGBT issues said at a press event on Thursday.Some Israeli and Palestinian activists are boycotting the parade, claiming that Israel promotes gay rights “as a fig leaf to hide the crimes of the occupation.”Pinkwashing Israel, a leader in the parade boycott, will hold a protest at the starting point of the march at Meir Park on Friday. Nearly 300 people on Facebook have said they plan to attend.Meanwhile, the Jaffa bar Anna Loulou, owned by a team of Palestinians and Israelis, held an “anti-pride" event on Thursday. The event celebrated non-binary identities and was in opposition to the parade accusing it of pinkwashing.We stayed up all night in preparation for the #TelAviv #Pride Parade. See you there! pic.twitter.com/O2nQZwuaWM
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