Gay Days
 | Israel, 2009, 71 min Genre/Subjects: LGBT rights, history, biography Language: in Hebrew and English with Russian subtitles DIRECTOR: Yair Qedar | ||
| In 1985, there were three gays who were out of the closet in Israel. By 1998, there were 3,000. In this short, intensive and dramatic period, Israel came out of the closet in one of the quickest and most colorful revolutions of the end of the 20th century. There was no bloodshed in this revolution, but a rare cooperation between academics, sex workers, transsexuals, singers, hairdressers and military officers. Director Yair Qedar, documented this revolution in his newspaper, The Pink Times. Using rare archival materials, personal stories and touching scenes, and via his own personal diary, the film tells the untold story of the gay revolution in Israel in an energetic, bittersweet collage.
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Yair Qedar, Director: Filmmaker, journalist, and social activist. He started various media projects in Israel, in the fields of culture, specifically Hebrew literature, and in the GLBT community. Wrote in various publications, such as Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, Masa Acher, and is recipient of various journalistic prizes. In the 1990s, he founded the first scholar group on GLBT studies and Queer theory. He edited the first gay theatre show in Israel in 1994, edited "Beyond Sexuality", an anthology of Gay & Lesbian studies, established 'Pink Time', HaZman Havarod, the community's newspaper, and more. His film Gay Days premiered on May 2009 at Tel Aviv's Docaviv Festival.
