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Benjamin Cohen on being an LGBT Jew – Sammy Davis RIP

by | 6th, February 2012

BEING a minority is so often about ticking mainstream boxes. Channel 4 News correspondent and PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen has made a video about being Jewish and LGBT.

“I made this video in reaction to the ‘gay cure’ crisis in the European Jewish community over the past few weeks. I started to come out when I was 15 in 1998 shortly before I joined JFS, a Jewish school in North London.”

Sammy Davis was a one-eyed black Jew working in Hollywood. Had he been gay he might have fitted into a stereotype…



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