Well, you don't know anything about being queer or sexual culture in
Iran or Oriental ism.
You have to do your homework, first of all.
Take a look at this article by Joseph Massad when you get a chance:
Joseph Andoni Massad, "Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and
the Arab World," Public Culture, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2002, pp.
361-385
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/public_culture/v014/14.2massad.html>
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Yoshie
How in the world do you end up lecturing me about Muslim attitudes about
homosexuality. I have spent enough time in Turkey to know that you have to
keep your homosexual identity a secret and Turkey is a lot more open than
Egypt or Iran. And I am talking about secular Turkish society, not places
like Eastern Anatolia. It is a plain fact that YOU CANNOT BE OPENLY GAY
there. Mossad's article simply says that it is okay to be gay in places
like Egypt just as long as you are not open about it. That was true in the
USA in the 1950s as well.
