On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Laws are against certain sexual acts, not against certain categories
> of persons, in Iran.
How is that different from anywhere else? We don't have laws against being a closeted U.S. Senator, but we do have laws against soliciting sex in public places.
> Personal rights and
> freedoms concerning sexuality, however, may be achieved in other ways
> than one based on the idea of sexual orientations
Well, isn't that what queerness is all about? Blurring the notion of fixed orientations? Orientations might be a kind of early, nationalist, coming-to-consciousness phase necessary to establish a point, but once the point is made, people can be more fluid. I realize that that's optimistic, and the point has not yet been made in some circles. But still...