We just threw up in our mouths a little.
Drek, a gay club based in Tel Aviv, has begun circulating publicity pictures that sexualize the beheadings of James Foley, David Haines and Steven Sotloff to promote their latest circuit party. Because nothing’s sexier than a homoerotic reinterpretation of the brutal murders of three innocent civilians.
One of the images shows a half-naked man in a desert kneeling in the sand with a black-clad man looming over him with his hand on his shoulder. The poster features the “black flag” of Isis in the top left hand corner and text running below in the style of Isis’ grisly propaganda videos.
A second image shows a topless man flying a black flag symbolic of Islamist extremism.
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Adding further insult to injury, the word Drek, Ynet reports, is Hebrew for “stubborn” but can also mean “hard-necked.”
The images were posted to the club’s Facebook page — where one of them can still be seen, despite public outcry.
Amiri Kalman, co-founder of Drek, said the group was merely “reacting to current events.”
“This is satire,” he added, “and our way of showing our contempt of them and their videos.”
But not everyone found the images satirical.
“Disgusting!” one commenter wrote. “Getting a laugh off of the murder of innocent victims.”
As New York Magazine pointed out, it’s worth noting that “Drek” is also Yiddish for “trash.”
HalcyonDays
Wow! Disturbing and disgusting. It’s one of those images, I wish I had not seen.
Paco
Satire? Somehow, I doubt the families of the murder victims will be laughing at seeing gay men sexualize their tragedy. I think in this case, I will have to go with the Yiddish word for “Drek”.
blackberry finn
Bad taste? Absolutely! Should it be censored? Absolutely not!
BJ McFrisky
Gay Israelis mocking radical Muslims?
Surely there’s no danger in that.
andy_d
“DREK” is Yiddish for a vast array of distasteful things ranging from trash to garbage to shit.
Geeker
Idiots
michael mellor
Gay club promoters are not the sharpest tools in the shed.
Stache99
I hope the party goers have the sense to boycott that club.
Franco C.
Goes to prove that common sense isn’t that common.
Billy Budd
These people are fuck*d up in the head.
Saint Law
Who hasn’t fantasied about sucking off an Isis executioner?
Saint Law
Sorry for the typo. Was typing one handed.
Kieran
If they were Israeli Arabs, I’m sure they would have been arrested and held in jail for “questioning” by now. The British-accented animal who gets off cutting human beings heads off with a dull knife is about as homoerotic as Jeffrey Dahmer eating the intestines of one of his victims. Disgusting.
DMingledorff
Kieran you are totally on target! Disgusting to even contemplate. Some people don’t know when to stop!
Captain proton
well, in some way it is comforting to know Florida doesn’t have a monopoly on stupidity, even if you have to go halfway around the world to find something monumental enough.
joseph
NO NO & NO! BAD TASTE!!!!
Lvng1tor
@blackberry finn: Agreed 100% They did what they did and let them suffer the consequence or more than likely ride the wave of publicity into relevance. I did not see any pics on their site other than the one above and some AH MAY ZING looking men but I did see comments from people about other articles like the one above. This is bringing them a TON of publicity which will probably turn profitable for them contrary the above “hope they get boycotted” sentiment. While I agree that I’d never go to an establishment that approved the described incident there are too many who will just cause they can say they can…what evs….@BJ McFrisky: Makes the best point in the stream.
talk_talk
This is definitely in bad taste….. as are those pesky BEHEADING VIDEOS they’re referencing. One thing you can say about them is, it hasn’t been done yet!
I think it’s gorgeous and fearless; I wish more of the gay community was taking fearless risks. Like the images or not, they are a reality, and not talking about them is far worse. I don’t think it’s a gross portrayal, I think it’s a beautiful way, albeit an insane way, for the gay community to pay tribute to the victims.
I am happy to see images of the gay community involving itself in the world’s political realities, and i think this is a beautifully over the top “all you need is love” message
Paco
Even if the photos were only for satire, they were still in extremely poor taste. I was under the impression,(maybe mistakenly) that we as a community were working to change how being gay is viewed by the world. Being gay should not be used as parody in an attempt to insult or demean a person or group because, you know, gay isn’t supposed to be a negative thing. Or so I thought. Apparently some of our Israeli brothers didn’t get the memo.
If a heterosexual club promoter had tried this stunt, the outrage would have been enormous with accusations of trying to link gays with Isis. The club promoters could have come up with a more clever way of making fun of Isis without using “gay” as the weapon.
Kangol
Monstrous. Really.