"Garden" a documentary about disenfranchised young gay Palestinians

Do they somehow manage to blame Israel for their predicament?

R1 quite the opposite.

They don't blame Israel, because relocating to Israel is the only way for them to survive (look at the gay Palestinian guy whom Iceland almost sent to represent them at Eurovision this year, for example). It's not really talked about, but you're taken behind the street by a gang and beaten to death if you're openly gay in Gaza. This is just how they police themselves.

I saw this at the Los Angeles Outfest Film Festival many years back. As an openly gay Arab man, it hit me hard. This young gay hustler shared his horrible position. His older brothers will kill him since he is openly gay and a source of disgrace for his family.

It was heartbreaking to see the pain in his eyes. He is torn between his Palestinian family, whom he still loves but has abandoned for fear of his life, and the streets of Israel as a non-citizen, with no secure place to call home. After viewing this candid film, you realize how easy it is for the vast majority of us in the Western world to be gay and out. This human narrative will stick with you.

I've seen this one and many other similar documentaries on hustlers in many countries. They are all heartbreaking but you also see "can do" and, sometimes, blind optimism (of youth) that combine with the human will to survive. The most touching one to me is Hommes à louer about a few street hustlers in Montreal.

I have noticed on Chaturbate that I can detect a modern iteration of the scenario. Young men who get out of oppressive cultures and who are currently in safe cities abroad and doing streaming sex to make money. In some ways technology has offered an improvement and more safety. Their eyes, though. It was not a picnic for them, and it's still not.