An institution preserving Israel's LGBTQ history has just opened – and it's already under threat
Israel's LGBTQ Pride Archive documents decades of struggle, desire and community – while fighting for its own survival. 'The current government is drying up civil society organizations, including LGBTQ organizations,' a leader of the project says
LGBTQ periodicals collected in the archive. A complex history. Credit: David Bachar
Israel's LGBTQ Pride Archive documents decades of struggle, desire and community – while fighting for its own survival. 'The current government is drying up civil society organizations, including LGBTQ organizations,' a leader of the project says
06:06 PM • January 11 2026 IST
In February 1992, poet and journalist Hezy Leskly wrote in his column in the Tel Aviv weekly Ha'Ir that Gabriel Sherover, the son of the well-known millionaire and philanthropist Gita Sherover, was gay and had died four years earlier of AIDS.
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