Gay in Israel 2014: It’s a family affair
Growing up in Haifa, people basically specialized in becoming parents,” says Guy Tatsa-Laur 44, who runs one of the more than a dozen surrogacy consulting agencies in Israel. “We all had the same banal fantasies of family life.”
When he realized he was gay, continues Tatsa-Laur, the first reaction he got at home was typically Israeli: “What? No grandchildren?”
“Twenty years ago, coming out and being true to yourself basically meant giving up on family,” he says.
But that was then. Today, same-sex couples (and gay singles) in Israel are as much about having children as their heterosexual next-door neighbors. And while this is increasingly true in Western countries, Israel, with its mix of family orientated character and generally liberal attitude toward homosexuality, makes for a special case.
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To support my friend David.
