[Marxism] Gay Muslim dance fever

[Louis Proyect]

Anon Anon wrote:
> 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.

I was suggesting that *repression* is the main thing that prevents 
openly gay behavior in the Middle East and Turkey. As the article stated:

<startquote>
Hasan, a 21-year-old Arab man, sitting at a table in the club’s quieter
adjoining cafe, declined to give his last name, saying: “They would kill
me. My brothers would kill me.” Asked if he meant this figuratively, he
responded, “No, I mean they would kill me.”

“I’m living one life here and the other one the way they wish me to be,”
Hasan said, referring to his parents. He said he still planned to marry,
but when he turned 30 rather than right away, as his parents wished. “I
have to have children, to do what Islam wants me to do,” he said. “I
would stop with everything in the homosexual life. I would stop it.”
<endquote>

The issue for me in the Middle East and Turkey is not whether 
"homosexual identities" are unknown, rather the iron fist that is 
required to deny it. And I speak as somebody completely familiar with 
the situation of gays in Turkey.