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The two dozen young people, who had come to hear a “gay film director,” met a professional who stresses that, above all, he wants to make good art. That evening, at the offices of the LGBT association, Heymann gave a lecture on his work to young members of the gay community. Heymann is gay, a father of twins who joined him on the trip with their mother and grandmother, who was born in Turkey and had never visited Istanbul.Īctivist in front of a pride flag and banner just set up on a bridge over the Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey, JÖmer Tevfik Erten The Israeli Consulate is involved, particularly through Cultural Attaché Elazar Zinvel, who has brought freshness to Israeli-Turkish cultural relations at a time when overall diplomatic relations are far from friendly. The Pera Museum, one of the most innovative and beautiful institutions anywhere, in the middle of the vibrant Beyoglu district in the European part of the city, is holding a Karasu retrospective. I came to Istanbul with Israeli documentary filmmaker Tomer Heymann. But believe me, I’ve never lacked for lovers, because these machos don’t think that if they occasionally want to have sex with a man that means they’re gay.” Turkey remains a macho country with men not accepting that women are their equals. “You know very well, as I do, that things are not as they seem.
“Don’t tell me tales,” said the smiling visage on the book. Well, this has happened, I said to the picture on the book’s cover, referring him to the flag fluttering from the balcony on the top floor above me. He described the furtiveness, the casual sex, the illusions of falling in love, and his life with an aging mother who couldn’t understand her son’s inclinations.ĭrag performer Kika in costume, Istanbul, 2019 Elazar ZinvelĪnother book features dozens of letters he wrote to two friends, a couple in Paris, with whom he dreamed of the day when gay men in Turkey could raise the Pride banner and fight for recognition. In a diary published posthumously with the help of his good friend and French translator Alain Mascarou, Karasu documented his life in Istanbul in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Only after his untimely death in 1995 did his faithful followers learn that he was gay. Karasu, whose name in Turkish means black water, was born Israel Carasso. The book, translated from French, is about the famous Turkish author Bilge Karasu. On a Thursday night in Istanbul I took it out, on the sidewalk outside the building that houses Turkey’s LGBT association.
At the last minute I stuffed a book into my backpack for some travel reading.