Editing Pride parade (section)

====Israel====
{{main|Tel Aviv Pride|Jerusalem gay pride parade|Haifa Pride|Eilat Pride}}
[[File:Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade 2015 (18549971060).jpg|thumb|The [[Tel Aviv Pride]] Parade is the largest pride parade in Asia]]
[[Tel Aviv]] hosts an annual pride parade,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.urbantravelblog.com/info/tel-aviv-festivals |title=Tel Aviv Festivals |publisher=Urban Travel Blog |date=2012-05-21 |access-date=2012-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319024644/http://www.urbantravelblog.com/info/tel-aviv-festivals/ |archive-date=March 19, 2016}}</ref> attracting more than 260,000 people, making it the largest LGBT pride event in Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/2150040/gay-pride-parade-lights-tel-aviv-attracting-more-250000|title=Gay Pride parade lights up Tel Aviv, attracting more than 250,000|date=2018-06-09|website=South China Morning Post|language=en|access-date=2019-08-26|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213121554/https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/2150040/gay-pride-parade-lights-tel-aviv-attracting-more-250000|archive-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref> Three Pride parades took place in Tel Aviv on the week of June 11, 2010. The main parade, which is also partly funded by the city's municipality, was one of the largest ever to take place in Israel, with approximately 200,000 participants. The first [[Tel Aviv Pride|Pride parade in Tel Aviv]] took place in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-745646 |title=Kaplan painted rainbow colors ahead of Tel Aviv's 30th Pride Parade |last=Zanger-Nadis |first=Maya |date=June 8, 2023 |website=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=March 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614142938/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-745646 |archive-date=June 14, 2023}}</ref>

On June 30, 2005, the fourth annual Pride march of [[Jerusalem]] took place. The Jerusalem parade has been met with resistance due to the high presence of religious bodies in the city. It had originally been prohibited by a municipal ban which was canceled by the court. Many of the religious leaders of Jerusalem's [[Muslim]], [[Jewish]], and [[Christians|Christian]] communities had arrived at a rare consensus asking the municipal government to cancel the permit of the parades.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/world/worldspecial/clerics-fighting-a-gay-festival-for-jerusalem.html |title=Clerics fighting a gay festival for Jerusalem |last1=Goodstein |first1=Laurie |last2=Myre |first2=Greg |date=March 31, 2005 |website=The New York Times |access-date=March 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529200820/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/world/worldspecial/clerics-fighting-a-gay-festival-for-jerusalem.html |archive-date=May 29, 2015}}</ref>

Another parade, this time billed as an international event, was scheduled to take place in the summer of 2005, but was postponed to 2006 due to the stress on police forces during the summer of [[Israel's unilateral disengagement plan]]. In 2006, it was again postponed due to the [[2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict|Israel-Hezbollah war]]. It was scheduled to take place in Jerusalem on November 10, 2006, caused a wave of protests by [[Haredi]] Jews around central Israel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=114609 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120154511/https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=114609 |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |title=9 Protesters Detained at Anti-Gay Pride Demonstration |publisher=[[Arutz 7]] |date=November 1, 2006 }}</ref> The [[Israeli Police|Israel National Police]] had filed a petition to cancel the parade due to foreseen strong opposition. Later, an agreement was reached to convert the parade into an assembly inside the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University]] stadium in Jerusalem. June 21, 2007, the [[Jerusalem Open House]] organization succeeded in staging a parade in central Jerusalem after police allocated thousands of personnel to secure the general area. The rally planned afterwards was canceled due to an unrelated national fire brigade strike which prevented proper permits from being issued. The parade was postponed once more in 2014, as a result of [[2014 Israel–Gaza conflict|Protective Edge]] Operation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/jerusalem-holds-annual-gay-pride-parade-after-multiple-delays-375777#google_vignette |title=Jerusalem holds annual Gay Pride Parade after multiple delays |last=Eisenbud |first=Daniel K |date=September 18, 2014 |website=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=March 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920110135/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/jerusalem-holds-annual-gay-pride-parade-after-multiple-delays-375777 |archive-date=September 20, 2014}}</ref>

In 2022 local environmentalists from Tel Aviv started planning how to make the current year's parade and future parades more sustainable, using composting stations and removing single use plastic from the largest pride parade in the Middle East.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.greenprophet.com/2022/06/green-pride-parades/|title=Greening the pride parade, Tel Aviv |website=Green Prophet|date=June 6, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213121728/https://www.greenprophet.com/2022/06/green-pride-parades/|archive-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref>