[lbo-talk] Iran executes another queer

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 15 14:32:18 PST 2006


On Nov 15, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:


> 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?

Someone gets executed, at least in part for buttfucking or cocksucking, and this is what the discussion turns on?

Doug



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