[lbo-talk] Globalizing Homophobia

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 06:13:23 PST 2010


I recently read Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, and it's very good on this (if a bit rambling).

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> After September 11th, 2001, one of the liberal justifications for the  military
> intervention against Afghanistan was the oppression of women,  but also of gays,
> by the Taliban.  People in Europe and the USA received  with shock the news that
> same-sex couples were publicly executed in the  Kabul Stadium by bringing down a
> wall upon them that was constructed  solely for this purpose.  Others, however,
> pointed out that not only in the countries comprising  the "Axis of Evil," but
> also among a few allies of the USA, the  persecution of homosexuals has been
> elevated to a raison d'état.  Horror reports from Saudi Arabia and Egypt tell of
> draconian measures against men who are suspected of same-sex activities.
> own example these heteronormative  relations of violence.
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> Full article:  http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/klauda081210.html
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