The Secret History of Atralia's Gay Diggers | SBS Voic

Contents:

• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• THE BT ISRAELI LGBT FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH GAY PRI PARA COURTY OF FLICKR | U.S. EMBASSY TEL AVIV DEBORAH MOHER 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED GAY SCENE ISRAEL WH AN ECLECTIC VARIETY OF SOME OF THE MOST NTROVERSIAL AND CELEBRATED LGBT FILMS WRTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED THE UNTRY. VIEW ALL TRIPS DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MOROC ECUADOR THAILAND SOUTH AI GREECE JAPAN CROATIA ICELAND SPA INDIA MEXI TURKEY BALI EGYPT ORIENTED (2012) ORIENTED IS A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE GAY PALTIAN IENDS THEIR 20S LIVG LIFE TEL AVIV. IT WAS IALLY RELEASED JUNE 2015 AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FTIVAL, AND WAS DIRECTED BY JAKE WZENFELD AS HIS FEATURE BUT. THE FILM IS NOT ONLY A MORN TALE OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF BEG GAY SOCIETY, ALSO DOCUMENTS THE DIFFICULTI OF BEG GAY FOR PALTIAN MEN AND HOW THE ISSUE CLASH WH ISLAMIC DOCTRE. THE THREE BT IENDS CI TO FORM A GROUP LLED ‘QAMBUTA,’ HOPG TO BRG ABOUT CHANGE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO THEIR UNIQUE SEXUAL AND NATNAL INTI. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP YOSSI & JAGGER (2002) YOSSI AND JAGGER WAS RELEASED 2002 AND HAS SCE BEE A CULT MT-SEE. DIRECTED BY EYTAN FOX, THIS ROMANTIC FILM FOLLOWS TWO GAY SOLDIERS THE ISRAELI ARY AS THEY AL WH DAILY LIFE AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORR. YOSSI IS A MANR AND IS VOLVED A SECRET, PASSNATE LOVE AFFAIR WH HIS SEND--MAND (WHO IS NICKNAMED JAGGER). THE TWO OFTEN SNEAK OFF OM THE OUTPOST TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. AN AMBH LEAV JAGGER WOUND, AND PLITNS ENSUE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. OUT THE DARK (2013) ANOTHER POLILLY PROVOTIVE TALE, OUT THE DARK TELLS THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI LAWYER WHO FALLS FOR A PALTIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUNT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AT THE INTERNATNAL HAIFA FILM FTIVAL. THE FILM, A DIRECTORIAL BUT FOR MICHAEL MAYER, PORTRAYS THE POLIL PLITNS OF AN ISRAELI FALLG LOVE WH A PALTIAN THE WT BANK AND THE EVABLE PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALY A NSERVATIVE MLIM SOCIETY. - AME - CUPK (2013) IN A DIFFERENT GENRE OM THE CELEBRATED EYTAN FOX, DIRECTOR OF YOSSI AND JAGGER, CUPK IS A SWEET EDY OF A GROUP OF FIVE IENDS TEL AVIV WHO ENTER THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT AS A JOKE. THEY ARE SHOCKED TO FD OUT THAT THEIR ENTRY WAS ACCEPTED. THE FILM FOLLOWS THE LGBT-IENDLY GROUP AS THEY GO FORWARD WH THE IAL JOKE THAT IS NOW TAKEN SERLY BY EACH MEMBER FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL REASONS. - AME - PAPER DOLLS (2006) PAPER DOLLS IS A CHARMG DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWG THE LIV OF TRANSGENR FILIPOS WHO HAVE E TO ISRAEL TO WORK AS RE-WORKERS FOR ELRLY JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN. THE DOCUMENTARY PAPER DOLLS ( HEBREW BOOBOT NIYAR) WAS RELEASED 2006 BY DIRECTOR TOMER HEYMANN. THE DOCUMENTARY WAS SHOT OVER A LONG FIVE-YEAR PERD AND WAS FEATURED A VARIETY OF TERNATNAL FILM FTIVALS TO A POSIVE RECEPTN. - AME - YOSSI (2012) A SEQUEL TO EYTAN FOX’S YOSSI AND JAGGER, THE FILM YOSSI FOLLOWS THE TLE CHARACTER’S LIFE FOLLOWG HIS ENUNTER WH JAGGER TEN YEARS EARLIER. YOSSI IS A 34-YEAR-OLD RDLOGIST TRYG TO PE WH HIS TRMATIC PAST AND HIS PRENT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AND IS FOX’S FIFTH FEATURE FILM. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY
• PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
• THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
• ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP.

Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology. Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected.

Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry. "The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.

It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.

THE BT ISRAELI LGBT FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH GAY PRI PARA COURTY OF FLICKR | U.S. EMBASSY TEL AVIV DEBORAH MOHER 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED GAY SCENE ISRAEL WH AN ECLECTIC VARIETY OF SOME OF THE MOST NTROVERSIAL AND CELEBRATED LGBT FILMS WRTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED THE UNTRY. VIEW ALL TRIPS DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MOROC ECUADOR THAILAND SOUTH AI GREECE JAPAN CROATIA ICELAND SPA INDIA MEXI TURKEY BALI EGYPT ORIENTED (2012) ORIENTED IS A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE GAY PALTIAN IENDS THEIR 20S LIVG LIFE TEL AVIV. IT WAS IALLY RELEASED JUNE 2015 AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FTIVAL, AND WAS DIRECTED BY JAKE WZENFELD AS HIS FEATURE BUT. THE FILM IS NOT ONLY A MORN TALE OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF BEG GAY SOCIETY, ALSO DOCUMENTS THE DIFFICULTI OF BEG GAY FOR PALTIAN MEN AND HOW THE ISSUE CLASH WH ISLAMIC DOCTRE. THE THREE BT IENDS CI TO FORM A GROUP LLED ‘QAMBUTA,’ HOPG TO BRG ABOUT CHANGE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO THEIR UNIQUE SEXUAL AND NATNAL INTI. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP YOSSI & JAGGER (2002) YOSSI AND JAGGER WAS RELEASED 2002 AND HAS SCE BEE A CULT MT-SEE. DIRECTED BY EYTAN FOX, THIS ROMANTIC FILM FOLLOWS TWO GAY SOLDIERS THE ISRAELI ARY AS THEY AL WH DAILY LIFE AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORR. YOSSI IS A MANR AND IS VOLVED A SECRET, PASSNATE LOVE AFFAIR WH HIS SEND--MAND (WHO IS NICKNAMED JAGGER). THE TWO OFTEN SNEAK OFF OM THE OUTPOST TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. AN AMBH LEAV JAGGER WOUND, AND PLITNS ENSUE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. OUT THE DARK (2013) ANOTHER POLILLY PROVOTIVE TALE, OUT THE DARK TELLS THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI LAWYER WHO FALLS FOR A PALTIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUNT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AT THE INTERNATNAL HAIFA FILM FTIVAL. THE FILM, A DIRECTORIAL BUT FOR MICHAEL MAYER, PORTRAYS THE POLIL PLITNS OF AN ISRAELI FALLG LOVE WH A PALTIAN THE WT BANK AND THE EVABLE PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALY A NSERVATIVE MLIM SOCIETY. - AME - CUPK (2013) IN A DIFFERENT GENRE OM THE CELEBRATED EYTAN FOX, DIRECTOR OF YOSSI AND JAGGER, CUPK IS A SWEET EDY OF A GROUP OF FIVE IENDS TEL AVIV WHO ENTER THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT AS A JOKE. THEY ARE SHOCKED TO FD OUT THAT THEIR ENTRY WAS ACCEPTED. THE FILM FOLLOWS THE LGBT-IENDLY GROUP AS THEY GO FORWARD WH THE IAL JOKE THAT IS NOW TAKEN SERLY BY EACH MEMBER FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL REASONS. - AME - PAPER DOLLS (2006) PAPER DOLLS IS A CHARMG DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWG THE LIV OF TRANSGENR FILIPOS WHO HAVE E TO ISRAEL TO WORK AS RE-WORKERS FOR ELRLY JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN. THE DOCUMENTARY PAPER DOLLS ( HEBREW BOOBOT NIYAR) WAS RELEASED 2006 BY DIRECTOR TOMER HEYMANN. THE DOCUMENTARY WAS SHOT OVER A LONG FIVE-YEAR PERD AND WAS FEATURED A VARIETY OF TERNATNAL FILM FTIVALS TO A POSIVE RECEPTN. - AME - YOSSI (2012) A SEQUEL TO EYTAN FOX’S YOSSI AND JAGGER, THE FILM YOSSI FOLLOWS THE TLE CHARACTER’S LIFE FOLLOWG HIS ENUNTER WH JAGGER TEN YEARS EARLIER. YOSSI IS A 34-YEAR-OLD RDLOGIST TRYG TO PE WH HIS TRMATIC PAST AND HIS PRENT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AND IS FOX’S FIFTH FEATURE FILM. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life. "Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

NEW WWI MOVIE TO FEATURE A GAY LOVE STORY

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". “Beg a gay filmmaker, bed wh my love for World War II history, I knew I had to tell this story, ” Vallente, the director and -wrer of the film, said.

PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN

We take a look at the celebrated gay scene Israel wh an eclectic variety of some of the most ntroversial and celebrated LGBT films wrten, directed and produced the untry.

Oriented (2012) Oriented is a fascatg documentary film about three gay Paltian iends their 20s livg life Tel Aviv.

The film is not only a morn tale of the trials and tribulatns of beg gay society, also documents the difficulti of beg gay for Paltian men and how the issue clash wh Islamic doctre.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Directed by Eytan Fox, this romantic film follows two gay soldiers the Israeli ary as they al wh daily life at the Israel-Lebanon borr.

The film, a directorial but for Michael Mayer, portrays the polil plitns of an Israeli fallg love wh a Paltian the Wt Bank and the evable problems of homosexualy a nservative Mlim society.

But rerds of the LGBT romanc survived homophobic revisnists and still stand as celebratns of the origal Greek (and Roman) love. A seri of poems about Catull' gay love affairs has drawn more attentn ntemporary tim; some of gets outright vulgar. Alexanr the Great and HephatnAlexanr III, the famed kg of Macedon, que likely mataed a gay relatnship wh his general Hephatn.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

Ined, two of the most famed generals of their day, Epamondas and Pelopidas, were lovers who fought wh this famo band of gay warrrs. Pdar and TheoxenThe most famo love poem wrten by Pdar to clare his love for the young Theoxen was scribed by gay rights scholar Magn Hirschfeld as "one of the most perfect love songs the Greek language. Ort and PylasThe relatnship between the two men was celebrated by Greek scholars as a tale of the wonr of homoerotic romance.

He lived wh longtime lover Psanias, who was quoted extensively on the subject of homosexual sire Plato's work. Ms Macdonald said she had been ma to feel "shame" the 40 years Sunak ma the statement Parliament after a report to service personnel's treatment remend they be given a fancial reward and the PM should publicly lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 and Ms Macdonald was one of thoands of veterans thought to be ptn, Ms Macdonald joed at 19 and was a lance rporal the Women's Royal Army CorpsAfter hearg the statement, Ms Macdonald told BBC Rad Shropshire she had "lots of different emotns" and add: "It's such a historic day and 42 years on I never, ever dreamed that this would happen. Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L.

She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance. In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s. Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy.

THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS

“Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love. In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L. Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr.

Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic. “The whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E.

”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan. The uprisg, after a police raid at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village, was a turng pot the gay rights movement.

ARMY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY GENERAL RETIR AFTER SPIRG OTHERS

“Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful. Vcenz’s films “gave visual documentatn of the astonishg distance that the gay movement had traveled between 1968 and 1970.

“I fd a privilege to work wh gay people, ” she PrsLilli Marie Vcenz was born Hamburg, Germany, on Sept. J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay.