Urei Bosatsu (oo-ray beau-sats)

27 year old from South Carolina, studying Linguistics at Hebrew University and managing the only gay bar in Jerusalem. eng/עבר/esp/tur. he/him/his.

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#radiohead (at Yarkon Park)

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On the site of the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, built on an Ottoman period cemetery. #really (at כיכר החתולות)

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מזל טוב מאיה :) (at טופ דוראן - Top Duran)

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Feeling myself today (at Jerusalem City - مدينة القدس)

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Not sure I remember this. Happy late Purim! #jerusalem #purim (at Nachlaot)

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Happy Purim #jerusalem (at Jerusalem City - مدينة القدس)

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at Videopub

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Good morning #loveofmylife #jerusalem #gay (at Jerusalem City - مدينة القدس)

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Gotta love those nights that end at ten in the morning #PAG #telaviv #yahabibi (at Alphabet)

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End of the sunset #jerusalem (at Jerusalem City - مدينة القدس)

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Buffy marathon part 20 (at Al Qods)

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Life is good

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The most beautiful thing happened

After I got home from the Kotel today, I decided that I needed to go out and do something normal, or I would just spiral into further depression. I needed to get outside my room. So I walked down the street to the only area open after Shavuot in Jerusalem, Ben Yehuda Street. As I was walking, I heard chanting getting louder. I couldn’t tell what they were saying, but I heard “Orlando.” There were Pride flags being waved and a people yelling into a megaphone. Signs in Hebrew and Arabic proclaimed solidarity with Orlando. Even more people were sitting in the square lighting Yahrzeit candles. 

I know that the Jerusalem LGBTQ+ community had only intended the event to be an act of solidarity, but to me it was so much more. It was as if I suddenly had community in the middle of a foreign land, people that connected to me even more than my fellow Orlando travelers. I was able to talk to people that understood loss, who had just had a horrific terror attack of their own last year, at the Jerusalem Pride parade where they lost Shira Banki. And that event really helped me heal a little bit from what was undoubtedly the worst day ever. Stay golden, Jerusalem. You are truly my home away from home. 

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כל הכבוד לאלה שהגיעו לכיכר ציון אתמול! 

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Good morning, Jerusalem.

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at לבן בסינמטק

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Sunday morning... #selfie #Jerusalem #isthishowyouhashtag

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It's time for a haircut