Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land (2012)

Directed by

Yariv Mozer, Michael Lucas

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Israel

Runtime

46 min

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows the lives of gay men in Israel through interviews and scenes of daily life. It features a range of people like a politician, a soldier, a drag queen, and parents raising children. The film highlights the progress and community in Tel Aviv.

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What happens

Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land is a 46-minute documentary written by American adult-film entrepreneur, columnist, gay activist and gay pornographic film director Michael Lucas, and co-directed by Lucas and Israeli director Yariv Mozer. In his debut as a documentary filmmaker, Michael Lucas portrays in this film released in 2012 Israel's thriving GLBT community through footage of Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife, a same-sex wedding, and candid interviews with a diverse range of local Israeli gay men and lesbians, including a gay MP, an openly gay Army trainer, a drag queen, a transvestite, a young Arab-Israeli journalist, and same-sex parents raising their children and a number of artists and activists. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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