[lbo-talk] "This is why I didn't report on those protests against Iran's supposed torture and murder of gays"

[Michael Pugliese]

http://leftbehinds.blogspot.com/2006/07/doug-ireland-vs-iran-and-yasmin-nair.html
 Doug Ireland vs. Iran and Yasmin Nair and Daniel Drennan and Joseph Massad
Over at the Queer Fist board
( http://www.queerfist.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss, I sub. lots of
denunciations of gay marriage as heteronormative and reprints of
Workers World Party agitprop )
, queer activists/writers Doug Ireland, Yasmin Nair, and Daniel
Drennan have been in a war of words about protests commemorating the
first anniversary of the public hanging in Iran of Mahmoud Asgari and
Ayaz Marhoni, two teens who may or may not have been lovers but who
were convicted of raping a boy...
<SNIP> Continues at moderate length.
   The Joseph Massad piece in Public Culture, noted, seems to me a
anti-homo pomo polemic. Shades of the Homintern gibe.

Joseph Massad's "Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the
Arab World." Public Culture - Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2002, pp.
361-385