Tel Aviv celebrates Gay Pride and opening of Pride Center

By GAL TZIPERMAN LOTAN
The Jerusalem Post

The Pride Center is scheduled to open with an art exhibition in Tel Aviv's Gan Meir with Friday's Gay Pride Parade, and will house everything from an art gallery to plays, conferences, a café, and HIV/AIDS support groups, city council member Itai Pinkas told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

"We conducted a survey of over 3,000 people to see if such a center is needed, who would use it and what people want to see in it," Pinkas said. He initiated the project after promising a center for the gay and lesbian community in his election campaign five years ago.

Almost all reactions so far had been positive, Pinkas said.

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