GAY MEN AT BAR DURING JERUSALEM GAY PRIDE PARTY, 1998-07-01 (photo)

FOR RELEASE WITH FEATURE BC-ISRAEL-HOMOSEXUAL - Gay men mingle at a bar during the second annual gay pride party held in Jerusalem June 18. Student organizers of the event had to stage their party, which drew about 200 gays, indoors due to the possibility of protests by Jerusalem's large ultra-orthodox community. A few hours before the party, Jerusalem deputy mayor Haim Miller said on television that homosexuals are "loathsome" and that "everything must be done so they won't be seen in our homes or around our yards." The following week some 2,000 gays and lesbians took to the streets of Tel Aviv in Israel's first ever Gay Pride parade. EH/SB