Filmreaktion: Cosmopolitan

August 5, 2021 Unter Filmnotizen

Kosmopolitisch  ???
Buch und Regie: Moran Nakar
7 min, Israel, 2019

Die erste Schwulenbar I ever went to, and still one of my favorites in memory, was located in a downtown majority-Black neighborhood. So as a baby gay, I never thought of calling it “mixed.” It was just the way it was and I thought it must be the same everywhere.

When I moved to Chicago years later in the late 80s, I was surprised and weirded out by the ubiquitous segregation. Anyone who’s lived in Chi knows what I’m talking about.

So, when I went to Boystown bars with black and brown friends or lovers, nine times out of ten they’d be asked for multiple IDs, when I was only asked for one.

Der Generator war überwiegend schwarz, und ihre Türgötter, Türsteher und Kunden haben es nie versäumt, mich willkommen zu heißen, egal, mit wem ich zusammen war.

Ansonsten musstest du auf der Nordseite in die Punk- oder New-Wave-Clubs gehen (oder in die zuverlässigen Poly Berlin), um von dem Scheiß wegzukommen. Aber die Etablissement-Schwulen-Bars, die Sweater-Bars, die T-Shirts-im-Look-Bars? Auf keinen Fall.

So, are we surprised that the same thing happens in Israel? No, we are fucking not.