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Peter Fox is a writer who focuses on the intersection of LGBT identity and Jewish world politics. His writing has been featured in the Times of Israel and New Voices Magazine.
Peter Fox is a writer who focuses on the intersection of LGBT identity and Jewish world politics. His writing has been featured in the Times of Israel and New Voices Magazine.
For much of my life, I’ve seen myself as a schlemiel: the endearing Yiddish word for a socially inept person living a life patched by blunders and awkwardness. From my teenage years through college, I believed what I saw as my incompetence and lack of grace were residues of a bad personality. As it turns…
“When I wake up tomorrow, I don’t expect to know anything.” That’s what my 91 year-old Bubbie told me the morning of the election. Unlike many of us who are glued to our screens monitoring every change of the needle, my grandmother elected for an early night’s sleep after watching Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune…
The first gay pride march took place in New York 50 years ago on June 28, 1970, with just a few thousand protesters in attendance. It wasn’t the decadent street festival with millions dancing to music that it is today. The first march was a courageous act by LGBTQ people of affirmation and self-declaration against…
This year the themes of the Passover seder resonated differently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For my family, it has been all the more significant because my grandmother (whom we call bubbie) is one of the many people who has the virus. In a way, we’re reliving the experience of our ancestors who were quarantined…
If you’re reading this, I hope you’re doing well. The world is a different place from the one we found ourselves in a week ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic reached its tipping point in America, dramatically altering life as we know it for the foreseeable future. We’ve become more of our primal selves, fighting for…
This past Sunday, I proudly joined 25,000 others at the “No Hate No Fear” march across the Brooklyn Bridge to take a stand against the violence that has afflicted New York and New Jersey’s Orthodox Jewish communities this past month and beyond. In the last three weeks alone, 14 anti-semitic incidents were reported in New…
I’ll never forget the morning of June 12, 2016, waking up to the horror that 49 people— mostly LGBTQ — had been killed at the Pulse Night Club in Orlando. It reinforced my worst fear that there was a price to pay for being gay. Exactly two weeks later was the first anniversary of the…
The Dyke March is perhaps most famous for a 2017 fiasco, when the organizers forcefully removed Jewish women from marching for the crime of holding Jewish pride flags. It’s back, this time for a march in Washington D.C. this Friday. And though the march bills itself as radically inclusive for lesbians of all stripes, it…
