> 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