[Marxism] Gay Muslim dance fever

[Anon Anon]

I don't understand what exactly you are attempting to
emphasise by juxtaposing these two pieces--one is
(mostly) about same-sex relations in the Arab
developing world, the other is about sexuality of
migrant youth in Berlin.  Pardon the pun, but apples
and oranges. Some references below on the former
issue, and one thought: the first country in the world
to have constitutional prohibitions against
discrimination on the basis of sexuality was a third
world country (South Africa).

Gays Rights versus Human Rights: Reply to Joseph
Massad's “Re-Orienting Desire” (Public Culture 14,2)
Arno Schmitt
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~arno/massad.html

Desiring Arabs by Joseph Massad
University of Chicago Press, 2007
Reviewed by Brian Whitaker 
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/articles/text/massad.htm

Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian
Public Cultures 
Reviewed by Romit Dasgupta
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue14/dasgupta_review.htm


> Public Culture, Spring 2002
> Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the 
> Arab World
> Joseph Massad
>
> NY Times, January 1, 2008
> Berlin Journal
> Gay Muslims Pack a Dance Floor of Their Own
> By NICHOLAS KULISH


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