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...Serkan Gorkemli This article focuses on the Internet as a “digital closet” in the context of Turkish lesbian and gay activism in the 1990s and early 2000s. In its analysis of media and sexual discourse, the article first discusses traditional media, such as the printing press and television. While...

..., in this instance blogging, I argue that subversive optimism, coupled with online activism, has the potential to challenge existing structures of heteronormativity. According to my findings, change hinges on challenging difficulties and disconnects between gay men’s and lesbian women’s experiences. Grant...

... construction of the post-revolutionary Iranian diasporic queer subjectivities through an analysis of cultural production that included eighteen issues of the Iranian gay and lesbian magazine, Homan. I have participated in the editing and production of Iranian queer publications, HASH414 and Homan,15...

... Bareed Mista3jil a critical and timely publication. This collection of forty-one narratives about Leba- nese lesbian, bisexual, queer, and questioning women and transgender 112  mn  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES  7:2 persons is published by Meem, a Lebanese organization for homosexual...

... INTRODUCTION his article is an account of the formation of the lesbian, gay, bisex- Tual, and transgender (LGBT) group, Himaya Lubnaniya lil Mith- liyeen wal Mithliyat (HELEM). In Arabic, the name means “Lebanese protection for gays and lesbians,” and its acronym means “dream.” HE...

... BOOK REVIEWS mn  121 salient when the book refers to religious sources. For example, in Chapter 5, Shirazi argues that, although Iranian law makes lesbianism a crime, such a measure cannot be based on Is- lam, because, although the Qur’an forbids homosexual conduct between males, it does...

... MacMaster’s revelation and apology were many, ranging from debates on the history of cyberhoaxes (and on-line masquerade, more broadly) to questions of ethics and responsibility for the damage caused to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) online organizing in the Middle East. Why has...

... homosexuality is seen as an aberrant sexual act, running counter to het- eronormative expected societal structures (Mertus 2007). The Western concept/privilege of gays “coming out” doesn’t correspond with the way many gay and lesbians from restrictive non-Western societies construct...

...); and with Peter Horne, of Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures (1996). Lewis is also series editor with Teresa Heffernan of the Gorgias Press book series, Cultures in Dialogue (2007), which brings back into print critical editions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century travel writing, memoir...

... ). In rabbinic discussions, in turn, homosexuality has long appeared not as an identity but as a transgression of Jewish law. Accordingly, ancient Hebrew has no expression referring to the concept of sexual orientation or identity. However, the terms “gay” ( homo ), “lesbian” ( lesbit ), and “sexual orientation...

... commercializing spaces in Bei- rut? How do such changes dovetail with changing aesthetics of the male body? How has the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Lebanon become aggravated and aided by such mobili- ties: first, by the perceived duel between Beirut and Tel...

... , gay and Iran , and lesbian and Iran . Given Shakhsari’s ( 2012 ) proposition that a shift in hypervisibility has occurred in the post-9/11 war on terror context, 7 I more specifically designed the study to look for publications before 2001 as well as from 2001 to 2018. I chose to look...

... Code and all amendments issued up to the beginning of 1985. The 1981 RCC amendment to the personal status law was not declared invalid after 2003. Conservative forces in the region argue that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities and lifestyles are expressions...

... a Western set of norms on non-Western regions and to that extent represent a culturally imperialist force. But I have also seen forms of global solidarity on issues such as violence against women and the parenting rights of single women and lesbians that have been quite useful for many activists...

... an increase in positive media representations of gays and lesbians, along with the rise of gay/lesbian consumerism, antidiscrimination law reforms, and gay/lesbian-friendly urban policies, has challenged the subordinate status of nonheteronormative identities in advanced capitalist societies (Weeks 2007...

... of a president I voted for. If anyone should have practice understanding what it is like to be an Israeli, it would be an American” (58), but then she asks an Israeli antioccupation lesbian whether it is “possible … for lesbians to have a healthy relationship in Israel today” (71), as if such a possibility...

..., and the rights of gay and lesbian, as well as of transgender and intersex persons, were seen by many as undesirable additions to a move- ment that might otherwise have a chance at success. İlkkaracan signals a new and more inclusive approach to sexual and gender minority rights in the region...

... and the Subversion of Identity . A year later Diana Fuss ( 1991 ) published her collection Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories , the journal differences released a special issue titled “Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities” (de Lauretis 1991 ), and the collective Bad Object-Choices ( 1991 ) published...

... of scholarly engagement aimed at supporting queer social movements in Palestine and across the Middle East” (185). While their arguments differ significantly in scope as well as target, Atshan maintains that Massad’s insistence on the nonexistence (or lack of authenticity) of gays and lesbians in the Arab...

... state political claims are advanced through the idiom of sexuality. Among the examples Yildiz provided is the Hevi Istanbul initiative, a recently founded lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) group that integrates sexuality politics, class politics, and the Kurdish political struggle against...