26/6/09
About 2,000 participants in a gay pride parade have marched peacefully through Jerusalem. In past years, the gay pride event in the holy city provoked violent protests, even stabbings, by ultra-Orthodox Jews and extremists. But this year, except for one egg-throwing incident, there were no clashes. Police said they arrested the egg-tossing protester. Others put up signs and demonstrated in an ultra-Orthodox section of Jerusalem, far away from the parade. The marchers waved rainbow and Israeli flags and donned rainbow dresses, shirts and headbands.