90-year-old grandfather Kenh Felts out as gay

Contents:

• A GAY DAD AND HIS SON
• HAVG A GAY OLD TIME TURKEY
• GAY TURKEY
• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

A GAY DAD AND HIS SON

Only after his untimely ath 1995 did his fahful followers learn that he was gay. Drag performer Kika stume, Istanbul, 2019Cred: Elazar ZvelAnother book featur dozens of letters he wrote to two iends, a uple Paris, wh whom he dreamed of the day when gay men Turkey uld raise the Pri banner and fight for regnn.

Beg gay here is still shameful. But believe me, I’ve never lacked for lovers, bee the machos don’t thk that if they ocsnally want to have sex wh a man that means they’re gay. Heymann is gay, a father of tws who joed him on the trip wh their mother and grandmother, who was born Turkey and had never vised Istanbul.

HAVG A GAY OLD TIME TURKEY

Activist ont of a pri flag and banner jt set up on a bridge over the Bosphos, Istanbul, Turkey, June 20, 2019Cred: Ömer Tevfik ErtenThat eveng, at the offic of the LGBT associatn, Heymann gave a lecture on his work to young members of the gay muny. The two dozen young people, who had e to hear a “gay film director, ” met a profsnal who strs that, above all, he wants to make good art. It might addrs the problems faced by the muny, but the ma tert is the person as a person whether straight, gay or anythg else.

GAY TURKEY

Turkey Boytts Eurovisn Israel Over LGBT Artists Sex Parti, Dgs and Closeted Clergy: Unrver the Vatin What Israelis Can Learn From Turkish LGBT Activists, and Vice Versa Everyone has room unr his sun, he kept repeatg wh great enthiasm; and Heymann has always ma room his movi for homophob. In a clip he showed om his film “The Queen Has No Crown” – which tells the story of Jesalem's first gay pri para – ’s clear how his mera is ptivated by ultra-Orthodox Jews there to prott. In his seri “Paper Dolls, ” which vers a drag band om the Philipp on tour Israel, the shockg homophobia be the heart of the matter when a taxi driver directs his hatred at the two drag sgers who have jt gotten off, wh Heymann stg bi him.

Participants the workshop weren’t shocked by this; such homophobic rants are mon Turkey, they said. Tomer Heymann at the Pera Mm, Istanbul, November 24, 2019Cred: Eng Sengec / Pera MmObvly, the state of the LGBT muny is better Israel than Turkey, and ’s clear that Tel Aviv is nsired the gay paradise of the Middle East. But ironilly, Istanbul is far ahead, remag wh ci like Marrakech Moroc and the island of Mykonos Greece a lostone for gay people around the world, regardls of the real suatn on the ground.

90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

In Istanbul there’s a perfect mix of Wtern fantasi about the homoerotic Orient and the realy that miraculoly fulfills the fantasi. “In the list of thgs that need changg Turkey there are a few more important thgs than the problems of gay men, such as vlence agast women and the murr of women, " she said. Maybe bee his films are above all about humanism and empathy – even those wh heavy homoerotic scen – the movie theater at the mm was packed on the retrospective’s openg night.

This fotten 18th-century pater was an early regnizer of Turkish culture’s affy to genr dualy, to vert homoerotic allns. He wrote about iendship between mal as a characteristic that nstantly hts at homoeroticism.