Gay director picts swimmg world’s homophobia “The Swimmer” - Outsports

Contents:

• THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR
• GAY DIRECTOR ADAM KALRON PICTS HOMOPHOBIA THE SWIMMG WORLD WH ‘THE SWIMMER’
• A LANDMARK FOR GAY CEMA — AND ONE OF THE BT JEWISH FILMS YEARS
• EROTIC GAY THRILLER ‘IN BED’ DEBUTS TRAILER AHEAD OF RELEASE ON HOME TURF ISRAEL (EXCLUSIVE)
• IN EYTAN FOX’S ‘SUBLET,’ GAY MEC TEL AVIV SERV AS SET FOR GENERATN CLASH
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• STEERG A PATH TO ACCEPTANCE FOR GAY ISRAELIS
• GAY-THEMED ISRAELI DRAMA 15 YEARS MAY HAVE MISSED THE THEATR, BUT OFFERS THE ZY FORT OF PERSONAL VIEWG

THE SHOCKG LIFE OF ISRAEL'S MOST FAMO GAY PORN STAR

As JW3, the Jewish muny centre north London, lnch GayW3, celebratg the liv of the LGBTQ muny throughout history to the prent day through film, theatre, mic and discsn, and upliftg Brish-Israeli documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, backed by the BFI, prepar for s cema release, now is a great time to look back at the bt of Jewish and Israeli LGBT cema. Gay Jewish characters have been the subject of great films om around the world, and the list below featur films om the UK, France, Germany, the US, and, of urse, Israel. A number of Brish films jt missed the list, cludg Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), which Jewish doctor Peter Fch enjoyed Brish cema’s first male-on-male kiss; award-wng short film Sidney Turtlebm (2008), starrg Derek Jabi as an elrly gay Jewish pickpocket and nman; and Lisa Gornick’s latt film, The Book of Gabrielle (2016), a funny and sharp study of a Jewish lbian whose sexualy is thrown to turmoil.

His adaptatn of Mart Crowley’s play, about a group of gay men who gather for Harold’s party, rultg a cel eveng of sadistic gam and sabotage, me at the wrong time – as the gay liberatn movement tablished s voice the early 1970s, negative or prsg pictns of gay men the media were seen as archaic and obstctive to progrs. While Michael, the pathetic protagonist, is ed an unlikeable and self-pyg monster, the other characters are far more sympathetic, while the glor Harold, utterly unashamed of his homosexualy and wh nothg to hi, emerg om the rnage unsthed. Torch Song Trilogy (1988)Harvey Fierste is bt known for his stage work, particularly for wrg the books for the stage mils La Cage x Foll and Kky Boots, jog Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman as Broadway legends who happened to be both gay and Jewish.

GAY DIRECTOR ADAM KALRON PICTS HOMOPHOBIA THE SWIMMG WORLD WH ‘THE SWIMMER’

The star of the show, though, is Fierste, who mak Arnold a lovable, vulgar and believably human figure who challenged the perceptn of drag queens as sexls clowns shamg the gay muny. Amazg Grace, ma nearly a later, is a much stronger piece of work, about two gay men – one an nocent teenager om a troubled fay, the other an HIV patient – who fall for each other after meetg Tel Aviv. In Man Is a Woman, he brgs all his nsirable charm and charisma to the role of Simon, a gay Klezmer mician who is offered 10 ln ancs om his tradnalist uncle if he agre to marry a woman.

An attempted kiss at a New Year’s Eve party velops to a passnate romance, but the vlently homophobic and antisemic world of wartime Berl threatens their happs. Few gay and lbian survivors were alive to tell their stori when Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman ma their important documentary Paragraph 175, whose tle riv om the German act of law prohibg gay sex, which ntued to exist to the 1990s. Rather than producg a para of cshed victims, the film foregrounds the sharp mentary of Gad Beck, a Jewish gay man who helped refuge pe; the wistful memori of love lost om Hez F., still too guard to reveal his full name; and the undiluted anger of Pierre Seel, who was tortured by Nazi officers.

A LANDMARK FOR GAY CEMA — AND ONE OF THE BT JEWISH FILMS YEARS

Luckily, Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Wtfeldt, who wrote and star as said let’s-give--a-whirl ‘lbians’, have w and chemistry on their si and create the neart cema has e to a gay Woody Allen movie. The nflict between homosexualy and Orthodox Judaism has been explored a number of excellent documentari, cludg Tremblg Before G-d (2001), Keep Not Silent (2005) and Jesalem Is Proud to Prent (2008).

Yossi (2012)Eytan Fox is one of Israel’s foremost directors, and all of his films foc on gay characters, often g homosexualy to ment on a wir theme, such as self-realisatn Mossad thriller Walk on Water (2004) or the Israeli–Paltian nflict The Bubble (2006).

EROTIC GAY THRILLER ‘IN BED’ DEBUTS TRAILER AHEAD OF RELEASE ON HOME TURF ISRAEL (EXCLUSIVE)

Where Amos Guttman wallowed the sadns of gay liv, workg as he was an era of fear and prejudice durg the AIDS crisis, Fox’s films are more optimistic and celebratory, if ocsnally btersweet. (2016)After a year on the ftival circu, where won the documentary award at the Berl Film Ftival and the dience award at the UK Internatnal Jewish Film Ftival, Barak and Tomer Heymann’s feature about the life of Saar Maoz, an HIV posive gay man livg London after beg rejected by his Israeli fay and driven away om his Kibbutz, is fally gettg a short cema release April 2017.

Saar fds acceptance the welg arms of the London Gay Men’s Chos, but the need to heal the rift between him and his fay leads him to ntemplate returng to Israel for good. Shows perfectly and nvcgly how difficult any kd of love between someone om Palte and Israel is) but also nveys hope - and celebrat the unique power and nnectg nature of thentic you want to see one of the bt and most touchg and dramatic love stori (be gay, straight or whatever) go for and watch that masterpiece! Anyone who’s read a scriptn of the movie, which follows a the life of Israeli gay-porn star Jonathan Agassi, but who expects some refement or ncealment, will be disappoted.

IN EYTAN FOX’S ‘SUBLET,’ GAY MEC TEL AVIV SERV AS SET FOR GENERATN CLASH

Up Close and Personal Wh an Israeli Gay Porn Star How to Film Sex Scen the Era of MeToo “The movie isn’t difficult for me, I don’t watch and experience anew the difficult perd I went through. While filmg was still unrway, even before Men of Israel beme one of the most profable gay-porn featur, he was signed on for two more porn producer and fervent Znist Michael Lus, who employed Agassi pornographic REUTERSThat’s when the name "Jonathan Agassi" was born, an alter ego that he scrib the current movie as a superhero, a character who helps him, who's always on his si. Cast & crewUser reviews2021Unrated1h 24mSe the discrimative tennci sports agast LGBTQ people, and how a sportsman learns to accept and love himself spe the discrimative tennci sports agast LGBTQ people, and how a sportsman learns to accept and love himself spe the discrimative tennci sports agast LGBTQ people, and how a sportsman learns to accept and love himself spe productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview A Near Total FailureI expect better om Israeli ' Gay films ' than this.

Male hysteria and y homophobia be close to the absurd and there is one scene of mp dancg stead of swimmg which looks badly choreographed and ma me crge. The world we live is too by wh urgent problems to thk of than male sex/love and yet the world sperately needs to tackle plex them that has homosexualy at s re.

One would thk a LGBT sports drama based on one of the most homoerotic sports swimmg would be least sexy if ’s not tertg but stead this is a generic boreft shot wh the visuals pth of a sports mercial&the erotic chemistry of two baked potato. Anyways watch And then we dance stead an much better gay sports drama, I crave one day we get a tense sport drama wh the homoerotic energy of an Rocky movie or Top Gun but ma explicly gay but this dry ass dog sh a’t lol full of stereotyp and clich of gay drama but executed wh zero energy and craft. Israel has yet to be the powerhoe of gay cema like France or Argenta, but they have nsistently livered cent products for the last 20 years, wh The Swimmer beg their latt film has one of the olt and hottt openg creds ever, which giv an expectatn that we're gog to see a great al of male sk.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

Lewarm, average Israeli gay drama we've seen 179 tim before, maly foced on flawls physiqu of male swimmers and their speedos, but due to phenomenal climactic dance sequence (let's ll ma character's moment of personal emancipatn) be stantly distctive & memorable. As he told ScreenDaily’s Geofey MacNab, “By makg this film, we would not only want to highlight the problem of homophobic bullyg profsnal sport, but show a hero who is brave and strong enough to face adversy and is able to overe everythg wh attu.

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Movi|‘Sublet’ Review: A Ls-Than-Intrepid Traveler ADVERTISEMENTA stra-laced fictnal New York Tim wrer meets a eewheelg younger man this low-key gay romance om Miller/Greenwich EntertamentSubletDirected by Eytan FoxComedy, Drama, Romance1h 29mAn unrstated gay romance, “Sublet” follows a fictnal middle-aged New York Tim travel wrer assigned to disver what’s what Tel Aviv over the urse of five days.

STEERG A PATH TO ACCEPTANCE FOR GAY ISRAELIS

Wh immersive cematography and a fast-paced, pop soundtrack, the film also tak an unflchg look at the topic of chem-sex, which Gilady says is “rarely openly spoken about the gay muny or shown at all film. ) of mistst on both sis lor everythg and everyone the qutn be are they bld to or jt so srred they n't regnize movie foc on the relatnships — faial, sexual and iendships — between three long-time iends, two gay men and one hetero woman. Their chemistry and crazy liv would make for an entirely enjoyable romantic edy whout the layers of cultural ntext and history, but wh the addn of, creat a memorable, urgent and rewardg one of the men falls for a gay Paltian, their bubble is popped irreversibly as they are all forced to nont the reali of life a regn fed — and seemgly staed by — hatred.

And beg a gay Paltian, would seem, means twice the agony and hardships as there is ltle tolerance for alternative life styl wh that culture and relign.

GAY-THEMED ISRAELI DRAMA 15 YEARS MAY HAVE MISSED THE THEATR, BUT OFFERS THE ZY FORT OF PERSONAL VIEWG

Cast & crewUser reviewsOrigal tle: Keilu e mahar20221h 25mGuy (28) and his bt iend Joy (31) are enjoyg the gay pri para to the fullt, when their bliss is abptly put to an end by a adly shootg. I hope the further will be still possible to have new gay movi Israel mastream after this movie will stroy the reputatn of gay should have stay as stunts movi and never go for the big you do plan to go for the movie please your attentn for the warngs this page of the movie...

It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. Kennedy has claimed that fluoridated water is “dggg” children, HIV do not e Aids and chemils the water are makg people gay or transgenr as well as phg nonsensil nspiracy theori about wifi and 5G cellular the son of former attorney general Robert Kennedy, and nephew of former print John F Kennedy, Kennedy has ed anguish to one of Ameri’s most storied polil dynasti wh his toxic 2019 three relativ wrote an opn lumn for the Poli webse nmng his anti-vacce advocy, which they held partially rponsible for a measl Congrsnal Integry Project ntends that Kennedy is a “Republin stooge” who is beg embraced by the far right an attempt to damage Bin.

Unlike “Yossi & Jagger” and “The Bubble, ” the aspects of gay inty that have historilly anchored queer movi — g out and societal rejectn — are not the foc of the plot here. Instead, Fox has crafted a pensive, dialogue-driven movie about different mos of movg through the world as a gay Jewish man: Amerin and Israeli, early 20s and middle age. When he began wrg “Sublet, ” he said, “I had jt turned 50 and I was thkg, how did I e to be the man that I am: Jewish, Israeli, gay, filmmaker, hband to my hband, childls?

Fox channeled his mgs on agg as a gay Jewish Israeli to the rapport between his two leads, who bate each other on their rpective plac wh the untry and the Jewish world. “If you had told me the early ’80s growg up Jesalem that one day we’d have openly gay members of Knset — that we’d have a transgenr woman as a referee the tough, macho world of Israeli soccer — I wouldn’t have believed you, ” he said.

“I n unrstand people accg the Israeli ernment of g my films for pkwashg — sayg we’re so wonrful, we have a gay film director, gay films, everythg you n dream of, so people don’t ask qutns about the Paltians, ” he said. The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man begng a soclogy study of gay islamic homosexuali and disverg gay love wh a young French steward. A documentary by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, I Exist giv a voice to gay and lbian Amerins om the Middle East, who often rema silent out of shame and fear.

Filmed 12 untri and 9 languag, this documentary, directed by gay Mlim filmmaker Parvez Sharma, tells the lorful and varied stori of gay and lbian Mlims om all over the world. In this portra that is multi-layered both terms of form and ntent, a gay man nonts the ghosts of his past and explor hidn longgs, unrequed love and tormentg feelgs of guilt.

After beg tranged om his fay for his homosexualy, we observe a young Arab man over four seasons and om far away as he navigat his solu – all the while attemptg to rennect wh his mother.

Currently playg select North Amerin ci and available to rent via Vio On Demand startg July 9, “Sublet” exam a fascatg generatnal divi between the two gay secular Jewish men. Movi|‘15 Years’ Review: On the Run From a Midlife Crisis ADVERTISEMENTA gay Israeli archect a mted relatnship is undone when the specter of parenthood is Glass Pictur15 YearsDirected by Yuval HadadiDrama1h 29mA sister openg set to a pulsatg sre tablish a misleadg tone for the Israeli domtic drama “15 Years” (out now on DVD and VOD): A man his 40s nervoly jogs alone at night until somethg startlg mak him halt his steps.

See, Lus is a former porn actor who now ns Lus Entertament, a top gay porn productn pany, whose new film, ‘Men of Israel, ’ available now vio stor, is beg billed as a landmark productn, beg the first gay porn film to feature an all-Israeli st.

FOR THE RECORD:This post, which was published prt on July 27, scrib Michael Lus of New York-based Lus Entertament as a former porn actor whose pany produc gay porn. But acrdg to this report om Tablet magaze, which offers smart, inoclastic verage of Jewish arts, polics and culture, the real breakthrough for the film is that ’s the first gay porn movie to feature an all-Jewish st.

“The Bubble, ” “Walk on Water, ” and “Yossi and Jagger” director Eytan Fox returns to the terra of gay trospective dramas wh the new film “Sublet, ” which opens on June 11 theaters om Greenwich Entertament. IndieWire’s Eric Kohn reviewed the film posively last year when premiered virtually as part of the shuttered Tribe Film Ftival: “Wh ‘Sublet, ’ Fox ntu this exploratn by wing his lens, wh an timate look at the ntrastg valu of gay men om different generatns that the specifics of Israeli culture to explore more universal ias. And I’m really sorry if I’m havg movie spoilers my answers would happen if “Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ” two of the vampir met high school and had a gay romance?

Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean LGBTQ muny ntu to face a daily barrage of bias-motivated attacks and public discrimatn unr the untry's archaic statut hered om centuri of reprsive European le, acrdg to the 58-page report tled "'They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws': Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad.