[lbo-talk] Iran executes another queer

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed Nov 15 14:23:10 PST 2006


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> I followed the link and looked at the original Farsi text. Once
> again, it is a case of understanding what "لواط" [lavat] means. A
> person who engages in lavat is not necessarily gay, much as a person
> who engages in sodomy is not necessarily gay. Neither lavat nor
> sodomy is identical to consensual same-sex sex, let alone consensual
> same-sex sex between two self-identified gay men. Anyone who has read
> Foucault, Jonathan Ned Katz, etc. knows the difference with regard to
> sodomy. It's time for us to learn the difference with regard to
> lavat.

This is interesting to me; what is lavat? Is there another term for the Western concepts gay and lesbian?

Miles



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