Greetings Economists, Lou I guess I don't know why think this is orientalism? On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
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.
Doyle, I grew up in that secretive time. You know people pass info around in various ways. At any rate if you have a reason like me to be interested in who is gay or not it's very interesting. I'm thinking of Tripp's the Homosexual matrix I read in the seventies which first informed me about world gay culture. It's part of trying to understand what things are really about. Being gay or queer as Yoshie like's to refer to, gives one a reason to know as much as possible because everything is so shadowy. I have to have a better understanding this Orientalism. Imposing a western otherness on Turkey? thanks, Doyle
