Tel Aviv Gay Pride 2016
Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality

The Gay Pride Parade 2016 will take place on Friday June 3rd, starting at
10am at Meir Park (home of the Tel Aviv Gay Community Center) with music,
shows and speeches. The parade will kick off at 12pm with floats, music and
hundreds of thousands of participants in the largest Pride Parade in the
Middle East. The parade will march along Bugrashov Street, turning north on
Yarkon Street, west on Frishman Street and eventually south along the city's
famous beach promenade towards Charles Clore Park. The parade will include
the following floats: The Beef, Shirazi, Lizi, Zoti, Tel Aviv Sauna and
Bshala.
Following the parade, a huge beach party will be held at Charles Clore Park
till sunset.

The spotlight of this year's Nonstop City's Pride Parade is "Women for a
Change", highlighting the role of women in the LGBTQ community. The Tel Aviv
Pride Parade opens the European pride season – the continent's first pride
parade for 2016.

In 2012 Tel Aviv was selected the Best Gay City in the world by
GayCities.com. Recently, Tel Aviv was named "The gayest city on earth" by
the Boston Globe and ranked by CNN as "one of the world's top gay honeymoon
spots".

The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality allocates many resources into promoting and
supporting the gay community, in an over-all yearly investment of $1
million. The Tel Aviv Pride Parade is the only parade in the world that is
fully sponsored by the Municipality. In the last few years Tel Aviv has
significantly deepened its investments to promote gay tourism to the city,
while an estimated number of 35,000 tourists are expected to arrive this
year in Tel Aviv to take part in the pride events.

Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Ron Huldai: "The Pride Parade has turned into one of
the symbols of the City of Tel Aviv with hundreds of thousands of
participants and tourists from all over the country and the world. I believe
that Tel Aviv-Yafo, a city of tolerance, is a beacon to other cities in this
issue".

Press Schedule for the Pride Events

Wednesday, 1/6
9:00 Tel Aviv Gay City Tour

14:00 Meeting with Guy Leitersdorf about Gay Pride events at Hilton Beach,
the official gay beach

20:00 Eurovision Event, Gan Meir Park
Former Eurovision winners, including Dana International, Anne Marie David,
Helena Paparizou and others, as well as this year's Israeli representative
Hovi Star, will give a free concert in Gan Meir with their most popular
songs. A wigstock happening for all.

Thursday 2/6
9:00-11:30 Fashion tour

14:00-16:00 Water Park Tel Aviv
The sexiest men in the world under the sun of Tel Aviv for 12 hours of
nonstop fun.

18:00 Sunset cocktail press conference

Friday 3/6
10:00 Tel Aviv Pride Parade, Starting at Gan Meir Park
At the pinnacle of pride week is the gay parade, which kicks off at Me’ir
Park with drag shows, floats, marching groups and uplifting music. This
festive celebration departs from the park, through the city and ends with a
bang at the famous sunset beach party, attracting countless spectators and
participants.

22:30 Pub Crawling, hosted by KIKI Scene with Guy Leitersdorf

Saturday 4/6
16:00 Tel Aviv Gay Pride After party

20:00 TLVFest – the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, Cinematheque
Tel Aviv
The only LGBT film festival in the Middle East, TLVFest is a fixture of the
Israeli pride week. Selected twice (2014 & 2015) by INDIEWIRE as one of the
10 LGBT film festivals not to be missed, the festival offers a fascinating
look into international and Israeli queer cinematic art.

Pictures of Pride Parade 2015:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tel_aviv/albums/72157647160566524
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tel_aviv/albums/72157655923107592