Hezy Leskly (Hebrew: חזי לסקלי; 26 July 1952 – 26 May 1994) was an Israeli poet, choreographer, painter and dance critic.
[1] Yehezkel (Hezy) Leskly was born in Rehovot to Czech-Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust from which his father’s first wife and child had perished.
At age 22, Leskly moved to The Hague in the Netherlands where he studied dancing and art.
[2] Leskly was among the first Israelis to identify as gay and was active in many LGBT organisations.
The primary topics of Leskly's poetry were homosexual life and dance.