$1M offered to LGBTQ advocacy groups to host Pride parade in Gaza, West Bank

A watchdog group that aims to expose hypocrisy announced Monday that it would donate $1 million to “Queers for Palestine” or any US LGBTQ advocacy organization to host a gay pride parade in Gaza or the West Bank.Anti-Israel groups such as “Queers for Palestine” have surfaced across America since the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 7, but homosexuality remains deeply taboo in the Palestinian territories.Gay and transgender people in Gaza and the West Bank face a significant level of persecution and are often subjected to horrific acts. New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) President Gregory T.Angelo, who is gay and the former president of Log Cabin Republicans, said the campaign is a “wake-up call” to anyone who identifies as part of the “Queers for Palestine” or “Gays for Gaza” movements.“I don’t want people to just shrug off this campaign as some kind of publicity stunt or something that is supposed to be comical.

It actually is a legitimate offer,” Angelo told Fox News Digital. “This campaign emerged to call out these purported advocates of LGBT equality and put our money where their mouths are,” he continued.“I think that this is a real opportunity for these groups to legitimately step up and host an event that would either highlight the fact that the Palestinian territories are not indeed a good place for LGBTQ individuals to be living, or it could be a breakthrough moment for pluralism and peace in the Middle East.”The New Tolerance Campaign said it secured commitments for the $1 million prize and will begin publicizing the offer with mobile billboards circulating around Columbia University in New York City, the headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C.

and UCLA in Los Angeles. “Obviously, the $1 million prize is something that is flashy.It was designed to get attention; it was designed to turn heads.

But the greater drive behind this project is one of equality and broad human rights,” ...