Queerg the 'Global Gay': How Transnatnal LGBT Language Dispts the Global/Lol Bary | Engenrgs

Contents:

• RE-ORIENTG DIRE: THE GAY INTERNATNAL AND THE ARAB WORLD
• 3. RE-ORIENTG DIRE: THE GAY INTERNATNAL AND THE ARAB WORLD
• JOSEPH MASSAD: BETRAYG GAYS
• JOSEPH MASSAD: THE COLUMBIA PROFSOR WHO ALSO DON'T THK GAY PEOPLE EXIST THE MIDDLE EAST
• QUEERG THE ‘GLOBAL GAY’: HOW TRANSNATNAL LGBT LANGUAGE DISPTS THE GLOBAL/LOL BARY
• THE MYTH OF THE GAY INTERNATNAL
• JOSEPH MASSAD, HOMOPHOBIA, GAY RIGHTS AND THE STCTURE OF MORNY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

RE-ORIENTG DIRE: THE GAY INTERNATNAL AND THE ARAB WORLD

Through their ght relatnship wh the Cuban ernment, which reprented them as a cultural imperialist offensive agast the newly formed Communist state, the gay liberatnists veloped a dialectil nceptn of the ternatnal that acknowledged the differential nstutn of sexual life wh specific ntexts, yet sought to reveal the ternatnal systems of power that produce and regulate those seemgly distct sexual formatns across ternatnal divis.

3. RE-ORIENTG DIRE: THE GAY INTERNATNAL AND THE ARAB WORLD

A través su tensa relación n el gobierno cubano, que los reprentaba o una ofensiva cultural imperialista ntra el recién formado tado unista, los liberador homosexual sarrollaron una ncepción dialécti lo ternacnal que renocía la nstución diferencial la vida sexual ntro ntextos pecífis, pero que trataba revelar los sistemas ternacnal por que producen y regulan as formacn sexual aparentemente disttas a través las divisn ternacnal. Dans le dre lrs relatns tendu avec le gouvernement cuba, qui l représenta me une offensive culturelle impérialiste ntre l’État muniste nouvellement formé, l libératnnist gays ont développé une nceptn dialectique l'ternatnal qui rennaissa la nstutn différentielle la vie sexuelle dans s ntext spécifiqu tout en cherchant à révéler l systèm ternatnx pouvoir qui produisaient et régulaient c formatns sexuell apparemment distct -là s divisns ternatnal.

JOSEPH MASSAD: BETRAYG GAYS

The spread of mass media and munitns has sce enabled the creatn of virtual muni, a global nsumer culture has universalized ias of sirabily, and transnatnal stggl for sexual rights have achieved the ternatnal regnn and visibily of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Intersex (LGBTI) terdisciplary and expandg amic fields, such as transnatnal sexualy studi (TSS) and queer ternatnal relatns (QIR), have emerged to addrs the role of sexualy wh the procs of globalizatn. A historil materialist mo of analysis expounds the divisn of the ternatnal to the distct spher of Wt/non-Wt, North/South, or re/periphery as historilly nstuted and found on palist social fd such a historil materialist approach to theorizg sexualy and the ternatnal wh the tellectual wrgs and transnatnal activi of the gay liberatn movement. ” The Gay Internatnal's ostensible liberatn project is, short, an imperialist unrtakg that is “stroyg social and sexual nfiguratns of sire” the non-Wt through the imposn of a Wtern sexual epistemology and cg non-Wtern stat to vlence agast those who display a Wternized inty of gayns (Massad 2002, 385) nceptn of the ternatnal is at work Joseph Massad's notn of the “Gay Internatnal”?

JOSEPH MASSAD: THE COLUMBIA PROFSOR WHO ALSO DON'T THK GAY PEOPLE EXIST THE MIDDLE EAST

To name but a few notable exampl, Mark McLelland (2000) has highlighted the signifint differenc between the associatns of the term “gay” wh Japan and the English-speakg world, Peter Jackson (2001) has mapped the variegated ways which foreign sexual disurs have been selectively and strategilly appropriated wh Asian ntexts toward the creatn of new sexual cultur, Jasbir Puar (2001) has shown how the effects of globalizatn Tridad have revealed the limed pacy of Wtern sexual disurs to travel transnatnally, and Katie Kg (2002) has nsired the polil implitns of lol mistranslatns of the term “lbian. Not dissiar to pal's enforcement of a differentiatn between the public and private spher, which is part based upon a genred divisn of labor, the gay liberatnists unrstood imperialism's enforcement of the differentiatns re/periphery and Wt/non-Wt to be based part on a sexual what regard is a dualistic nceptn of the ternatnal based on a sexual divisn?

QUEERG THE ‘GLOBAL GAY’: HOW TRANSNATNAL LGBT LANGUAGE DISPTS THE GLOBAL/LOL BARY

The most prehensive theoretil elaboratns of gay liberatnism, Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Opprsn and Liberatn and Mar Mieli's Towards a Gay Communism, brg this dialectil relatn between the state's persecutn of homosexuals and the emergence of a policized gay movement to the Altman (2012, xi) is an Atralian polil scientist who beme part of the emergg US gay liberatn movement durg his brief stay New York Cy the early seventi.

THE MYTH OF THE GAY INTERNATNAL

If “gay” implied a challenge to “the very fns and martns that society has created” (Altman 2012 [1971], 244)—and therefore volved a transformatn of nscns that would supplant the mdset of inty altogether—then “g out” is more accurately unrstood as a policizatn of homosexualy than as an sentializatn of homosexualy. This unrstandg of the ternatnal as -extensive wh imperialist systems of social anizatn, as well as the ternal movements for their superssn, rewr as a se of polics rather than a mere scriptive tegory or a pre-nstuted terra on which polics plays gay liberatn movement largely embraced this analysis of the ternatnal.

” The term “gay ghetto” was therefore one way for gay and lbian activists to renceptualize genr and sexual liberatn as a fundamental transformatn stctur and relatns of power, breakg wh a nceptn of jtice as the regnn of homosexualy as a morarian liberatnist thought, however, did not simply rehearse the anti-imperialist analysis of this perd whout modifitn. Tensns began to arise between the two groups, as the gay liberatnists grew impatient wh their ras’ silence on the Cuban ernment's anti-homosexual activi, and epted a hostile nontatn the summer of 1970 when New York Cy’s Elg Theater accintally double-booked two benef showgs, one for the Venceremos Briga and one for a Stonewall memoratn.

JOSEPH MASSAD, HOMOPHOBIA, GAY RIGHTS AND THE STCTURE OF MORNY

In s official statement banng self-avowed lbians and gays om participatn the Venceremos Brigas, the Natnal Commtee referred to gay liberatnism as “a cultural imperialist offensive agast the Cuban Revolutn” that was “imposg North Amerin gay culture on the Cubans (for example, paradg drag a Cuban town, actg an overtly sexual manner at parti)” (Venceremos Briga 1997 [1972], 411).

Problematizg the claim that homosexualy was an ventn of Wtern morny (a claim found wh queerphobic state disurs and queer studi alike), Ann Lra Stoler (1995) has illtrated how such sexual chronologi bracket histori of “the Wt” om the sexual disurs of race and empire through which bourgeois sexualy “the Wt” was found and produced. ” Evince of the existence of same-sex practic the loni jtified the further pathologizatn and crimalizatn of homosexualy wh the the analys illtrate is that the Cuban state's disurse on homosexualy, while legimated as an anti-imperialist stance, fact stemmed directly om the iologi of sexualy that were veloped through the procs of empire buildg. The clud the centraly of the nuclear fay as the basic un of society; the prevalence of particular forms of sexism—machismo and male chvism—prent wh the Hispanic world; the nsolidatn and expansn of state power the aftermath of the revolutn; the “prerevolutnary stat of Havana as a ‘s cy’” due to the lonial rtcturg of s enomy around prostutn, gamblg, and nartics (Young 1981, 9); and the adoptn of Soviet theori of homosexualy (Young 1981, 15–18).

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Siar explanatory acunts of the productn of Cuban homosexualy relatn to postrevolutnary stctural adjtments and velopments n be found articl wh var gay liberatnist papers, cludg Guy Nassburg's exchange wh Martha Shelley The Detro Liberator (1970, 5–6) and Keh Birch's (1975, 8–9) extensive vtigatn “Gays Cuba” the Brish journal Gay Left. Firmly rejectg the Cuban state's sistence on a lol, revolutnary Cuban sexual culture that is endangered by the fluenc of gay and lbian North Amerin brigadistas, Allen Young (1981, 86) wr: “For a regime that mak such a fs about ‘cultural imperialism, ’ [s] pennce on Eastern Europe for tellectual ias and munitn is ntradictory and unfortunate. For Young, the ternatnal is not simply the ntral and objective field on which transnatnal polics occurs—a field posed of pre-nstuted s onto which discrete sexual cultur n be mapped—but rather a field that is produced and rema through an emergent imperial orr and the stggl for s discsn returns to the liberatnists’ reprentatn of gayns as separable om the polil nscns that is fed through a llective stggle agast the totalizg systems that produce and regulate (historilly and culturally varied) ndns of homosexualy.

” The activist Wayne Pierce (1970, 5), addg his voice to the discsns about experienc of the gay and lbian brigadistas, also reerated that gay liberatnism was not a fight for “a society wh ‘good lears, ’” who would extend regnn and guarantee protectn to an objective, empiril group of dividuals lled “homosexuals, ” but for a society “where the power is really the hands of the people” to achieve a total transformatn of the socpolil orr, cludg s erng regim of sexual and genr Los Angel Rearch Group, a group of self-avowed lbian munist liberatnists, wrote a pamphlet 1975 that tackled wispread Communist proclamatns on homosexualy.