Gays Space: 6 Queer Sci-Fi Books You Should Read

Contents:

• SPACE IS GAY, AND HAS AN IMPORTANT LSON FOR US
• WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?
• HISTORY’S FIRST GAY ASTRONTWHY IS STEM SO STRAIGHT?KAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE COLLECTOR·3 M READ·AUG 31, 2020--SHARESALLY RI WAS THE FIRST AMERIN WOMAN AND FIRST GAY SPACESOURCE: WIKIMEDIASALLY RI MA HISTORY AS AMERI’S FIRST WOMAN SPACE ON 18TH JUNE 1983. HOWEVER, WAS ONLY AFTER HER ATH THAT BEME KNOWN THAT SHE WAS GAY.THERE WERE STUTNAL REASONS WHY RI, A PH.D. ASTROPHYSICS, CID NOT TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET DURG HER LIFETIME. SHE WAS JT 32 SHE WHEN TO WENT TO SPACE.DURG HER STT AT NASA, SHE WAS PART OF MANY FIRSTS.• SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO E THE ROBOT ARM SPACE• SHE WAS THE FIRST TO E THE ARM TO RETRIEVE A SATELLE• ON HER SEND FLIGHT, THE CHALLANR, SHE SPENT MORE THAN 343 HOURS SPACE• THIS FLIGHT WAS ALSO HISTORIL THE SENSE THAT WAS THE FIRST FLIGHT TO CLU MORE THAN ONE WOMAN. RI WAS ACPANIED BY KATHRYN D. SULLIVANWHY IS STEM SO STRAIGHT?QUEER STEM ORGANIZATNS: WORKPLACE DISADVANTAG FOR LGBT EMPLOYE STEM RELATED FERAL AGENCISOURCE: MDPIACRDG TO A STUDY NDUCTED UNRGRADUATE STUNTS WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQ ARE LS LIKELY TO NTUE THEIR STEM MAJORS¹. OBVLY, SCE THE STUNTS DROP OUT OF STEM AND DO NOT GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOLS, WE SEE FEWER LGBTQ FACULTY AND THE VIC CYCLE NTU. THIS RULTS A VERY WEAK SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR STUNTS INTIFYG AS SEXUAL MORI.NASA WAS NO EXCEPTN TO THIS DURG RI’S TIME THERE. BOTH NASA AND THE US ARY OPERATED ON “DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL” ( DADT) POLICY UP UNTIL 2011. THIS MEANT GAY SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN HAD TO REMA THE CLOSET OR RISK EXPULSN.61% OF THE ASTRONTS SELECTED BY NASA HAVE E OM ARY SERVICE². THGS WERE EVEN WORSE FOR ARY PERSONNEL — APART OM THE DADT POLICY, THE NSERVATIVE NATURE OF ARY HERAGE BED WH THE TAC STRS ON MANLS MA DIFFICULT FOR SERVICE PERSONNEL TO E OUT.US ASTRONTS ALL TRA HOTON TEXAS, WHERE UP UNTIL 2003 SODOMY LAWS REMAED BOOKS.WHY SALLY NEVER ME OUT OF THE CLOSET?
• “FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY GAY SPACE COMMUNISM”: HAS THE TIME FOR UNIVERSAL BASIC INE FALLY COME?
• GAYS SPACE: 6 QUEER SCI-FI BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ
• ‘IS SPACE GAY?’
• GAYS IN SPACE BOOKS
• ABOUT IJURRABOUT IJURREDORIAL BOARDAUTHOR GUILLATT NEWSJOURNAL CONTENTCURRENT ISSUEEARLY VIEWPAST ISSUINTERVENTNSBT ARTICLE PRIZEWEB CONTENTSPOTLIGHT ONBOOK REVIEWSVIRTUAL ISSUINTERVIEWSTHE URBAN NOWLECTUR & EVENTSARCHIVEDAUTHORS MEET CRICSSYMPOSIASEARCHTHE FRGHT NATURE OF EXCEPTNAL GAY SPACHOME   SPOTLIGHT ON   QUEERG URBAN STUDI   THE FRGHT NATURE OF EXCEPTNAL GAY SPACHOW DO WE GGE THE GAY AND QUEER POTENTIAL OF CI AND URBAN SPAC? WHAT DO SIGNATNS OF GAY-IENDLS DO, OR SET MOTN? IS GAY-IENDLS A EFUL AMEWORK FOR UNRSTANDG “GAY LIFE” CI? IN THIS PIECE, I DRAW OM MY REARCH ON EVERYDAY LIFE DISPTNS AND QUEER STRATEGI BEIT TO CHALLENGE HOW “GAY SPAC” HAVE BEEN ED TO PROVI EXCEPTNAL NARRATIV ABOUT CI. I OFFER MY NCEPT OF “ACTAL ORIENTALISM” OR ORIENTALISMS WH THE SO-LLED MIDDLE EAST, TO ADDRS HOW POPULAR MEDIA AND SOME AMIC STUDI REPRODUCE AMEWORKS THAT RELY ON NARROW ASSUMPTNS ABOUT WHAT GAY AND GAY-IENDLY SPAC ARE OR ENTAIL. AMIC STUDI AND JOURNALISTIC ACUNTS THAT ADDRS QUEER URBAN SPAC ALMOST EXCLIVELY EXPLORE GAY-MALE-DOMATED SPAC MAJOR CI AND METROPOLAN CENTERS. MOREOVER, EXISTG LERATURE PRIVILEG GAY SPAC THE GLOBAL NORTH, PARTICULARLY EURO-AMERIN CI, ALTHOUGH MORE RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN A MOVE TO EXPLORE THE SPAC (OR THE POTENTIAL OF SUCH SPAC) THE GLOBAL SOUTH.MAR MIKHAEL DISTRICT, BEIT. PHOTO: GHASSAN MOSAWI.THE PROCS OF QUEERG URBAN SPACE THE GLOBAL SOUTH HAS OFTEN MEANT G SMOPOLAN URBAN CENTERS THE GLOBAL NORTH AS UNIVERSAL REFERENCE POTS. FOR EXAMPLE, BEIT HAS BEEN LLED THE PARIS OF THE MIDDLE EAST, THE SAN FRANCIS OF THE ARAB WORLD, AND MORE RECENTLY THE PROVCETOWN OF THE MIDDLE EAST. AS A JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE, CI THE GLOBAL SOUTH ARE MA TELLIGIBLE TO EURO-AMERIN DIENC BY PARG AND NTRASTG THEM TO EURO-AMERIN CI AND OTHER CI THE GLOBAL SOUTH. TO EXAME GAY SPAC, POPULAR MEDIA (AND SOME AMIC STUDI) OFTEN EXPLORE THE PRENCE OF GAYBORHOODS, GAY BARS, AND NIGHTLIFE THAT REMBLE THOSE EUROPE AND NORTH AMERI. IN ADDN, THEY LOOK FOR THE PRENCE OF “OUT” LGBT NGOS, MASTREAM GAY VISIBILY, AND LGBT-ANIZG STRATEGI THAT PRIMARILY FOC ON PRI AND G OUT. FOR EXAMPLE, THE TERNATNAL GAY TOUR-GUI SPARTAC INTERNATNAL, SCRIB BEIT AS GAY-IENDLY, BY CLAIMG THAT: “GAY BARS AND CLUBS OPERATE EELY AND AN LGBTQ CENTRE HAS BEEN CREATED TO TER TO ALL NEEDS OF THE [GAY] MUNY” (2016, 482).MANY JOURNALISTS AND SOME AMICS EUROPE AND NORTH AMERI APPEAR TO REGARD GAY SPAC THE GLOBAL SOUTH AS EXCEPTNAL BY VIRTUE OF BEG LOTED THE GLOBAL SOUTH. JOURNALISTS SEE THE GAY OR GAY-IENDLY SPAC AS EXCEPTNAL VIS-à-VIS SOME IMAGED TRANSREGNAL LANDSPE OF “GAY SPACE” EURO-AMERIN CI—WHICH THEY OFTEN REGARD AS THE NORM AND OTHERS AS THE EXCEPTN. TH, THEY EXPECT GAY SPAC THE GLOBAL SOUTH TO REMBLE THOSE THE GLOBAL NORTH (GAY BARS AND RABOW FLAGS), AND OFTEN IMPLY A UNILEAR MOL OF THE VELOPMENT OF “GAY SPACE”, WH CI THE SOUTH FOLLOWG THE EXAMPLE SET BY THOSE THE NORTH.FOR EXAMPLE, A NEW YORK TIM ARTICLE 2009, JOURNALIST PATRICK HEALY NAM BEIT “THE PROVCETOWN OF THE MIDDLE EAST,” FOR S SEEMGLY “NASCENT” GAY LIFE, WHILE DISTANCG OM OTHER (HOMOPHOBIC) CI THE ARAB WORLD. TO MARK “GAY LIFE” PARTS OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH AS “NEW” ERAS LOL HISTORI OF QUEER SPAC. IN ADDN, CENTERS WHE GAY FORMATNS EURO-AMERIN CI SUCH AS PROVCETOWN AS A METRIC TO MAKE CI THE GLOBAL SOUTH TELLIGIBLE TO EURO-AMERIN DIENC. THE NCEPT OF A PLACE BEG LABELED “GAY-IENDLY” OFTEN EXISTS THROUGH A RELATNAL PARISON TO SPAC PERCEIVED NOT TO BE GAY-IENDLY. BEIT IS HAILED AS “THE ARAB WORLD’S MOST GAY IENDLY CY,” “THE GAY PARADISE OF THE ARAB WORLD,” PROMISG TO “REPRENT A DIFFERENT MIDDLE EAST FOR SOME GAY AND LBIAN ARABS.” BEIT BE “GAY IENDLY,” AS IS SIMULTANEOLY PARED TO AND DISTANCED OM BOTH EURO-AMERIN CI, AND THE RT OF THE PRUMED HOMOPHOBIC ARAB AND MLIM WORLD. HEALY (2009: 3) CLAIMS, “BEIT REPRENTS A DIFFERENT MIDDLE EAST FOR SOME GAY AND LBIAN ARABS: THE ONLY PLACE THE REGN WHERE THEY N OPENLY ENJOY A SOCIAL LIFE NIED THEM AT HOME”. SPARTAC INTERNATNAL CLAIMS MORE EXPLICLY THAT BEIT IS “THE LARGT CY AND THE MOST LIBERAL URBAN CENTRE THE UNTRY, THE LAST BIG CY EUROPEAN TERMS BEFORE THE SERT” (2011, 578).SUCH AN APPROACH OVERLOOKS A NUMBER OF ISSU: FIRST, ASSUM A HOMOGENO SPATIAL FORMATN OF “GAY SPACE” THAT IS BASED ON AN IMAGED (WHE) EURO-AMERIN URBAN UNIVERSAL AND THAT LEAR NARRATIV OF PROGRS – WHERE EURO-AMERIN CI ARE SEEN AS “LIBERAL”. SEND, GLOSS OVER THE EXCLNARY NATURE OF WHE GAY SPAC EVERYWHERE – PECIALLY WHEN TO RACE, GENR, AND CLASS – AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT ELIS THE POLIL ENOMI OF GAY SPACE. FALLY, THIS APPROACH LLAPS “GAY” AND “QUEER,” AND THEM TERCHANGEABLY.PRI PARA. PHOTO: QUO AL.ARE GAY SPAC REALLY EXCEPTNAL?DPE THE VAST LERATURE THAT HAS SHOWN THAT GAY SPAC EURO-AMERIN CI TEND TO BE EXCLNARY – WHE, MIDDLE-CLASS, AND GENR-NORMATIVE SPAC – WE STILL SEEK TO FD THEM URBAN SETTGS AND EMPLOY THEM AS SIGNS OF A SOCIETY’S “PROGRSIVENS.” THIS REPRODUC ASSUMPTNS THAT CI THEMSELV ARE PROGRSIVE, “OPEN,” AND “TOLERANT” TO DIFFERENCE. MOREOVER, MASTREAM GAY SPAC (SUCH AS BARS, PRI PARAS, ETC.) ARE TREATED AS SIGNS OF “PROGRS,” AND “EQUALY,” WHILE FACT, THEIR PRENCE IS ALWAYS NTTED BASED ON THE MULTIPLE EXCLNS THAT NSTUTE AND ARE NSTUTIVE OF THEM. GAY SPAC, AND OF THEMSELV, DO NOT TELL MUCH ABOUT “PROGRS.” WH EURO-AMERIN CI, QUEER PEOPLE OF LOR HAVE HISTORILLY CREATED – AND NTUE TO CREATE – THEIR OWN SPAC (SUCH AS DANCE PARTI AND ACTIVIST CIRCL) THAT DO NOT GET ACUNTED FOR WHEN WRG ABOUT “GAY SPAC,” OR THE “GAY IENDLS” OF CI. PERCEPTNS OF BEIT AND S GAY SPAC, SUCH AS THOSE REPRENTED BY HEALY AND OTHERS, PRENT A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THIS FLAWED LOGIC. IN MY FORTHG BOOK, DISPTIVE SUATNS: FRACTAL ORIENTALISM AND QUEER STRATEGI BEIT, I ARGUE THAT REPRENTATNS OF BEIT AS GAY-IENDLY ARE MA POSSIBLE THROUGH WHAT I LL “ACTAL ORIENTALISM.” UNLIKE CLASSIC ORIENTALISM, WHICH SIMPLE BARI OF EAST AND WT, ACTAL ORIENTALISM IS MULTI-SLAR AND EMPLOYS NTED BARI TO SIMULTANEOLY PRODUCE THE SAME DISTCTNS OF WT/EAST ON MULTIPLE LEVELS. FRACTALS OR “NTED DICHOTOMI” AS ANALYTICS ARE MULTI-SLAR. TH, ACTAL ORIENTALISM SIMULTANEOLY OPERAT ON MULTIPLE SL OF HEMISPHERE, NATN/STATE, URBAN/RAL, AND NEIGHBORHOOD. FOR EXAMPLE, REPRENTS THE WT AS MORE PROGRSIVE THAN THE MIDDLE EAST, EVEN AS REPRENTS LEBANON AS MORE “PROGRSIVE” THAN OTHER ARAB MIDDLE EASTERN UNTRI, AND BEIT AS MORE “GAY-IENDLY” THAN THE RT OF LEBANON. THE DISTCTNS EXTEND TO CLASSIFY DIFFERENT AREAS WH BEIT, REPRENTG NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE PREDOMANTLY MLIM AS LS OPEN THAN THEIR CHRISTIAN UNTERPARTS. MOREOVER, REGARDS SECULARISTS AND CHRISTIANS AS MORE “APPROPRIATE GAY SUBJECTS” THAN MLIMS. APPLIED ELSEWHERE, ACTALS DISTGUISH BETWEEN RAL AND URBAN SPATIAL FORMATNS, REPRENTG GAY-IENDLS AS UNIQUE TO CERTA URBAN SPAC.FRACTAL ORIENTALISM REVEALS HOW CI ARE OFTEN PARED AND NTRASTED TO ONE OTHER WHEN SIGNATG GAY SPAC. AS A PRACTICE, DISTANC BEIT OM BOTH S EURO-AMERIN AND ARAB UNTERPARTS—S GAY LIFE IS NOT EXACTLY THAT OF PARIS, YET IS NOT AMMAN NOR DAMASC. FOR EXAMPLE, DUTCH REPORTER JURRIAAN TUELGS (2010) CLAIMS: “AT THE CY’S TWO MA GAY CLUBS, MILK AND ACID, A MIX OF LEBANE, SYRIAN, JORDANIAN, KUWAI AND EVEN SOME IRAQI MEN DISPROVE ANY REMAG THEORY OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM. THAT IS TO SAY, ONCE SI PEOPLE DON’T BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY OM ANY OTHER GAY CLUB THE WORLD – WH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTN OF THE OCSNAL MALE BELLY DANCE. BUT THIS BEG THE MIDDLE EAST, MOST OF THE MEN ARE CLOSETED” (103, EMPHASIS ADD). LEAVG GEOGRAPHIL NTEXT ASI, BEIT MIGHT NOT BE AS EXCEPTNAL AS IS REPRENTED.WHEN JOURNALISTS ASSUME THAT THE EXISTENCE OF “GAY-IENDLY” SPAC IS SYNONYMO WH SOCIETAL OPENNS AND PROGRS, THEY RISK ERASG OR IGNORG EXCLNARY STATE PRACTIC AROUND NON-NORMATIVE AND MORIZED POPULATNS. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN THEY SCRIBE BEIT AS OPEN AND “TOLERANT” TO DIFFERENCE, THEY DO NOT ACUNT FOR S RACIST, SEXIST, AND XENOPHOBIC REALI AND POLICI – PARTICULARLY AGAST SYRIAN AND PALTIAN REFUGE, WORKG-CLASS DIVIDUALS, AND GENR NON-NORMATIVE AND TRANS PEOPLE. THIS FLATTENED PERCEPTN OF BEIT’S OPENNS TO “DIVERSY” OBSCUR THE POLIL ENOMY OF GAY SPAC. APPROACHG GAY SPAC THROUGH THE LENS OF POLIL ENOMY CENTRALIZ WHO HAS ACCS TO SUCH SPAC, SUCH AS THOSE WHO N PAY. IN ADDN, PAYS ATTENTN TO WHICH POPULATNS ARE UALLY TARGETED BY THE STATE. FOR EXAMPLE, THE 2013 POLICE RAID AND CLOSG OF THE GAY CLUB GHOST BEIT, POLICE TAED, HUIATED, AND VERBALLY AND PHYSILLY ABED SEVERAL GAY AND TRANS DIVIDUALS: MOST NOTABLY WORKG-CLASS AND GENR-NONNORMATIVE DIVIDUALS, AND SYRIAN NATNALS AND REFUGE. SUCH ACUNTS GET ERASED TALKG ABOUT “GAY BEIT,” TO THE EXTENT THAT BEIT’S “OPENNS” TO WHE GAY TRAVELERS IS MA POSSIBLE BY SUCH EXCLNARY PRACTIC AGAST UNSIRABLE GENRED, RACIALIZED, AND CLASSED OTHERS.BEIT SKYLE CY VIEW. PHOTO: GE AUFFARTH.VISIBLY GAY SPACE VS QUEERG SPACE
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SPACE IS GAY, AND HAS AN IMPORTANT LSON FOR US

When my gay iends and I talk about a time “before we were gay, ” we’re referrg to the years before some betiful queer disturbance fundamentally changed what we believed was, for , wrten the stars. ” Inspired by his answer and my personal experienc, I set out to fd queer people who had an tense love for space and ask them if they thought space was gay, and om everyone I spoke to, I received a roundg YES.

She says she is humbled by space, and believ the universe is gay bee ’s advertently “unterculture.

Ivory intifi as gay and aromantic, and tied his terts back to the this of my article to scribe why he chose the plaarium path. “It’s funny that, you know, unr the theme of ‘space is gay’...

WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?

Only one is publicly known to have been gay or bisexual — Sally Ri — and she kept private until her ath, yterday (July 23), when her obuary on the Sally Ri Science anizatn's webse stated that Ri was survived by Tam O'Shghnsy, her "partner of 27 years.

"I hope mak easier for kids growg up gay that they know that another one of their hero was like them, " Bear Ri, who intifi as gay, told Buzzfeed Rights Campaign print Chad Griff ncurred, tellg Buzzfeed, "The fact that Sally Ri was a lbian will further help round out Amerins' unrstandg of the ntributns of LGBT Amerins to our untry. But the lack of even one openly gay or lbian astront the history of Amerin spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astront office. Still, the fact remas that no astronts have ever e out as gay or lbian, while many astronts clu mentn of their hbands, wiv or children on their NASA official bgraphy pag.

HISTORY’S FIRST GAY ASTRONTWHY IS STEM SO STRAIGHT?KAMNA KIRTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE COLLECTOR·3 M READ·AUG 31, 2020--SHARESALLY RI WAS THE FIRST AMERIN WOMAN AND FIRST GAY SPACESOURCE: WIKIMEDIASALLY RI MA HISTORY AS AMERI’S FIRST WOMAN SPACE ON 18TH JUNE 1983. HOWEVER, WAS ONLY AFTER HER ATH THAT BEME KNOWN THAT SHE WAS GAY.THERE WERE STUTNAL REASONS WHY RI, A PH.D. ASTROPHYSICS, CID NOT TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET DURG HER LIFETIME. SHE WAS JT 32 SHE WHEN TO WENT TO SPACE.DURG HER STT AT NASA, SHE WAS PART OF MANY FIRSTS.• SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO E THE ROBOT ARM SPACE• SHE WAS THE FIRST TO E THE ARM TO RETRIEVE A SATELLE• ON HER SEND FLIGHT, THE CHALLANR, SHE SPENT MORE THAN 343 HOURS SPACE• THIS FLIGHT WAS ALSO HISTORIL THE SENSE THAT WAS THE FIRST FLIGHT TO CLU MORE THAN ONE WOMAN. RI WAS ACPANIED BY KATHRYN D. SULLIVANWHY IS STEM SO STRAIGHT?QUEER STEM ORGANIZATNS: WORKPLACE DISADVANTAG FOR LGBT EMPLOYE STEM RELATED FERAL AGENCISOURCE: MDPIACRDG TO A STUDY NDUCTED UNRGRADUATE STUNTS WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQ ARE LS LIKELY TO NTUE THEIR STEM MAJORS¹. OBVLY, SCE THE STUNTS DROP OUT OF STEM AND DO NOT GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOLS, WE SEE FEWER LGBTQ FACULTY AND THE VIC CYCLE NTU. THIS RULTS A VERY WEAK SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR STUNTS INTIFYG AS SEXUAL MORI.NASA WAS NO EXCEPTN TO THIS DURG RI’S TIME THERE. BOTH NASA AND THE US ARY OPERATED ON “DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL” ( DADT) POLICY UP UNTIL 2011. THIS MEANT GAY SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN HAD TO REMA THE CLOSET OR RISK EXPULSN.61% OF THE ASTRONTS SELECTED BY NASA HAVE E OM ARY SERVICE². THGS WERE EVEN WORSE FOR ARY PERSONNEL — APART OM THE DADT POLICY, THE NSERVATIVE NATURE OF ARY HERAGE BED WH THE TAC STRS ON MANLS MA DIFFICULT FOR SERVICE PERSONNEL TO E OUT.US ASTRONTS ALL TRA HOTON TEXAS, WHERE UP UNTIL 2003 SODOMY LAWS REMAED BOOKS.WHY SALLY NEVER ME OUT OF THE CLOSET?

)Cassutt said even though he spects there are or have been some other gay or lbian astronts, and spe of the progrs ma on LGBT issu, "I don't expect anyone the current rps to be 'out' any time soon, assumg anyone is gay.

“FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY GAY SPACE COMMUNISM”: HAS THE TIME FOR UNIVERSAL BASIC INE FALLY COME?

' While there are a great many more people who are openly gay today, we are not yet to a pot of universal acceptance, " he is also the fact that 219 of the 330 current and former astronts served the ary, acrdg to NASA. Ary operated unr a "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy om 1993 until 2011, unr which gay and lbian servicemen and women had to rema closeted or risk expulsn.

The repeal of DADT last year allowed gays and lbians to serve openly the U. Sally Ri was the first Amerin woman and first gay spaceSource: WikimediaSally Ri ma history as Ameri’s first woman space on 18th June 1983.

GAYS SPACE: 6 QUEER SCI-FI BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ

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‘IS SPACE GAY?’

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GAYS IN SPACE BOOKS

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ABOUT IJURRABOUT IJURREDORIAL BOARDAUTHOR GUILLATT NEWSJOURNAL CONTENTCURRENT ISSUEEARLY VIEWPAST ISSUINTERVENTNSBT ARTICLE PRIZEWEB CONTENTSPOTLIGHT ONBOOK REVIEWSVIRTUAL ISSUINTERVIEWSTHE URBAN NOWLECTUR & EVENTSARCHIVEDAUTHORS MEET CRICSSYMPOSIASEARCHTHE FRGHT NATURE OF EXCEPTNAL GAY SPACHOME   SPOTLIGHT ON   QUEERG URBAN STUDI   THE FRGHT NATURE OF EXCEPTNAL GAY SPACHOW DO WE GGE THE GAY AND QUEER POTENTIAL OF CI AND URBAN SPAC? WHAT DO SIGNATNS OF GAY-IENDLS DO, OR SET MOTN? IS GAY-IENDLS A EFUL AMEWORK FOR UNRSTANDG “GAY LIFE” CI? IN THIS PIECE, I DRAW OM MY REARCH ON EVERYDAY LIFE DISPTNS AND QUEER STRATEGI BEIT TO CHALLENGE HOW “GAY SPAC” HAVE BEEN ED TO PROVI EXCEPTNAL NARRATIV ABOUT CI. I OFFER MY NCEPT OF “ACTAL ORIENTALISM” OR ORIENTALISMS WH THE SO-LLED MIDDLE EAST, TO ADDRS HOW POPULAR MEDIA AND SOME AMIC STUDI REPRODUCE AMEWORKS THAT RELY ON NARROW ASSUMPTNS ABOUT WHAT GAY AND GAY-IENDLY SPAC ARE OR ENTAIL. AMIC STUDI AND JOURNALISTIC ACUNTS THAT ADDRS QUEER URBAN SPAC ALMOST EXCLIVELY EXPLORE GAY-MALE-DOMATED SPAC MAJOR CI AND METROPOLAN CENTERS. MOREOVER, EXISTG LERATURE PRIVILEG GAY SPAC THE GLOBAL NORTH, PARTICULARLY EURO-AMERIN CI, ALTHOUGH MORE RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN A MOVE TO EXPLORE THE SPAC (OR THE POTENTIAL OF SUCH SPAC) THE GLOBAL SOUTH.MAR MIKHAEL DISTRICT, BEIT. PHOTO: GHASSAN MOSAWI.THE PROCS OF QUEERG URBAN SPACE THE GLOBAL SOUTH HAS OFTEN MEANT G SMOPOLAN URBAN CENTERS THE GLOBAL NORTH AS UNIVERSAL REFERENCE POTS. FOR EXAMPLE, BEIT HAS BEEN LLED THE PARIS OF THE MIDDLE EAST, THE SAN FRANCIS OF THE ARAB WORLD, AND MORE RECENTLY THE PROVCETOWN OF THE MIDDLE EAST. AS A JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE, CI THE GLOBAL SOUTH ARE MA TELLIGIBLE TO EURO-AMERIN DIENC BY PARG AND NTRASTG THEM TO EURO-AMERIN CI AND OTHER CI THE GLOBAL SOUTH. TO EXAME GAY SPAC, POPULAR MEDIA (AND SOME AMIC STUDI) OFTEN EXPLORE THE PRENCE OF GAYBORHOODS, GAY BARS, AND NIGHTLIFE THAT REMBLE THOSE EUROPE AND NORTH AMERI. IN ADDN, THEY LOOK FOR THE PRENCE OF “OUT” LGBT NGOS, MASTREAM GAY VISIBILY, AND LGBT-ANIZG STRATEGI THAT PRIMARILY FOC ON PRI AND G OUT. FOR EXAMPLE, THE TERNATNAL GAY TOUR-GUI SPARTAC INTERNATNAL, SCRIB BEIT AS GAY-IENDLY, BY CLAIMG THAT: “GAY BARS AND CLUBS OPERATE EELY AND AN LGBTQ CENTRE HAS BEEN CREATED TO TER TO ALL NEEDS OF THE [GAY] MUNY” (2016, 482).MANY JOURNALISTS AND SOME AMICS EUROPE AND NORTH AMERI APPEAR TO REGARD GAY SPAC THE GLOBAL SOUTH AS EXCEPTNAL BY VIRTUE OF BEG LOTED THE GLOBAL SOUTH. JOURNALISTS SEE THE GAY OR GAY-IENDLY SPAC AS EXCEPTNAL VIS-à-VIS SOME IMAGED TRANSREGNAL LANDSPE OF “GAY SPACE” EURO-AMERIN CI—WHICH THEY OFTEN REGARD AS THE NORM AND OTHERS AS THE EXCEPTN. TH, THEY EXPECT GAY SPAC THE GLOBAL SOUTH TO REMBLE THOSE THE GLOBAL NORTH (GAY BARS AND RABOW FLAGS), AND OFTEN IMPLY A UNILEAR MOL OF THE VELOPMENT OF “GAY SPACE”, WH CI THE SOUTH FOLLOWG THE EXAMPLE SET BY THOSE THE NORTH.FOR EXAMPLE, A NEW YORK TIM ARTICLE 2009, JOURNALIST PATRICK HEALY NAM BEIT “THE PROVCETOWN OF THE MIDDLE EAST,” FOR S SEEMGLY “NASCENT” GAY LIFE, WHILE DISTANCG OM OTHER (HOMOPHOBIC) CI THE ARAB WORLD. TO MARK “GAY LIFE” PARTS OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH AS “NEW” ERAS LOL HISTORI OF QUEER SPAC. IN ADDN, CENTERS WHE GAY FORMATNS EURO-AMERIN CI SUCH AS PROVCETOWN AS A METRIC TO MAKE CI THE GLOBAL SOUTH TELLIGIBLE TO EURO-AMERIN DIENC. THE NCEPT OF A PLACE BEG LABELED “GAY-IENDLY” OFTEN EXISTS THROUGH A RELATNAL PARISON TO SPAC PERCEIVED NOT TO BE GAY-IENDLY. BEIT IS HAILED AS “THE ARAB WORLD’S MOST GAY IENDLY CY,” “THE GAY PARADISE OF THE ARAB WORLD,” PROMISG TO “REPRENT A DIFFERENT MIDDLE EAST FOR SOME GAY AND LBIAN ARABS.” BEIT BE “GAY IENDLY,” AS IS SIMULTANEOLY PARED TO AND DISTANCED OM BOTH EURO-AMERIN CI, AND THE RT OF THE PRUMED HOMOPHOBIC ARAB AND MLIM WORLD. HEALY (2009: 3) CLAIMS, “BEIT REPRENTS A DIFFERENT MIDDLE EAST FOR SOME GAY AND LBIAN ARABS: THE ONLY PLACE THE REGN WHERE THEY N OPENLY ENJOY A SOCIAL LIFE NIED THEM AT HOME”. SPARTAC INTERNATNAL CLAIMS MORE EXPLICLY THAT BEIT IS “THE LARGT CY AND THE MOST LIBERAL URBAN CENTRE THE UNTRY, THE LAST BIG CY EUROPEAN TERMS BEFORE THE SERT” (2011, 578).SUCH AN APPROACH OVERLOOKS A NUMBER OF ISSU: FIRST, ASSUM A HOMOGENO SPATIAL FORMATN OF “GAY SPACE” THAT IS BASED ON AN IMAGED (WHE) EURO-AMERIN URBAN UNIVERSAL AND THAT LEAR NARRATIV OF PROGRS – WHERE EURO-AMERIN CI ARE SEEN AS “LIBERAL”. SEND, GLOSS OVER THE EXCLNARY NATURE OF WHE GAY SPAC EVERYWHERE – PECIALLY WHEN TO RACE, GENR, AND CLASS – AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT ELIS THE POLIL ENOMI OF GAY SPACE. FALLY, THIS APPROACH LLAPS “GAY” AND “QUEER,” AND THEM TERCHANGEABLY.PRI PARA. PHOTO: QUO AL.ARE GAY SPAC REALLY EXCEPTNAL?DPE THE VAST LERATURE THAT HAS SHOWN THAT GAY SPAC EURO-AMERIN CI TEND TO BE EXCLNARY – WHE, MIDDLE-CLASS, AND GENR-NORMATIVE SPAC – WE STILL SEEK TO FD THEM URBAN SETTGS AND EMPLOY THEM AS SIGNS OF A SOCIETY’S “PROGRSIVENS.” THIS REPRODUC ASSUMPTNS THAT CI THEMSELV ARE PROGRSIVE, “OPEN,” AND “TOLERANT” TO DIFFERENCE. MOREOVER, MASTREAM GAY SPAC (SUCH AS BARS, PRI PARAS, ETC.) ARE TREATED AS SIGNS OF “PROGRS,” AND “EQUALY,” WHILE FACT, THEIR PRENCE IS ALWAYS NTTED BASED ON THE MULTIPLE EXCLNS THAT NSTUTE AND ARE NSTUTIVE OF THEM. GAY SPAC, AND OF THEMSELV, DO NOT TELL MUCH ABOUT “PROGRS.” WH EURO-AMERIN CI, QUEER PEOPLE OF LOR HAVE HISTORILLY CREATED – AND NTUE TO CREATE – THEIR OWN SPAC (SUCH AS DANCE PARTI AND ACTIVIST CIRCL) THAT DO NOT GET ACUNTED FOR WHEN WRG ABOUT “GAY SPAC,” OR THE “GAY IENDLS” OF CI. PERCEPTNS OF BEIT AND S GAY SPAC, SUCH AS THOSE REPRENTED BY HEALY AND OTHERS, PRENT A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THIS FLAWED LOGIC. IN MY FORTHG BOOK, DISPTIVE SUATNS: FRACTAL ORIENTALISM AND QUEER STRATEGI BEIT, I ARGUE THAT REPRENTATNS OF BEIT AS GAY-IENDLY ARE MA POSSIBLE THROUGH WHAT I LL “ACTAL ORIENTALISM.” UNLIKE CLASSIC ORIENTALISM, WHICH SIMPLE BARI OF EAST AND WT, ACTAL ORIENTALISM IS MULTI-SLAR AND EMPLOYS NTED BARI TO SIMULTANEOLY PRODUCE THE SAME DISTCTNS OF WT/EAST ON MULTIPLE LEVELS. FRACTALS OR “NTED DICHOTOMI” AS ANALYTICS ARE MULTI-SLAR. TH, ACTAL ORIENTALISM SIMULTANEOLY OPERAT ON MULTIPLE SL OF HEMISPHERE, NATN/STATE, URBAN/RAL, AND NEIGHBORHOOD. FOR EXAMPLE, REPRENTS THE WT AS MORE PROGRSIVE THAN THE MIDDLE EAST, EVEN AS REPRENTS LEBANON AS MORE “PROGRSIVE” THAN OTHER ARAB MIDDLE EASTERN UNTRI, AND BEIT AS MORE “GAY-IENDLY” THAN THE RT OF LEBANON. THE DISTCTNS EXTEND TO CLASSIFY DIFFERENT AREAS WH BEIT, REPRENTG NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE PREDOMANTLY MLIM AS LS OPEN THAN THEIR CHRISTIAN UNTERPARTS. MOREOVER, REGARDS SECULARISTS AND CHRISTIANS AS MORE “APPROPRIATE GAY SUBJECTS” THAN MLIMS. APPLIED ELSEWHERE, ACTALS DISTGUISH BETWEEN RAL AND URBAN SPATIAL FORMATNS, REPRENTG GAY-IENDLS AS UNIQUE TO CERTA URBAN SPAC.FRACTAL ORIENTALISM REVEALS HOW CI ARE OFTEN PARED AND NTRASTED TO ONE OTHER WHEN SIGNATG GAY SPAC. AS A PRACTICE, DISTANC BEIT OM BOTH S EURO-AMERIN AND ARAB UNTERPARTS—S GAY LIFE IS NOT EXACTLY THAT OF PARIS, YET IS NOT AMMAN NOR DAMASC. FOR EXAMPLE, DUTCH REPORTER JURRIAAN TUELGS (2010) CLAIMS: “AT THE CY’S TWO MA GAY CLUBS, MILK AND ACID, A MIX OF LEBANE, SYRIAN, JORDANIAN, KUWAI AND EVEN SOME IRAQI MEN DISPROVE ANY REMAG THEORY OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM. THAT IS TO SAY, ONCE SI PEOPLE DON’T BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY OM ANY OTHER GAY CLUB THE WORLD – WH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTN OF THE OCSNAL MALE BELLY DANCE. BUT THIS BEG THE MIDDLE EAST, MOST OF THE MEN ARE CLOSETED” (103, EMPHASIS ADD). LEAVG GEOGRAPHIL NTEXT ASI, BEIT MIGHT NOT BE AS EXCEPTNAL AS IS REPRENTED.WHEN JOURNALISTS ASSUME THAT THE EXISTENCE OF “GAY-IENDLY” SPAC IS SYNONYMO WH SOCIETAL OPENNS AND PROGRS, THEY RISK ERASG OR IGNORG EXCLNARY STATE PRACTIC AROUND NON-NORMATIVE AND MORIZED POPULATNS. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN THEY SCRIBE BEIT AS OPEN AND “TOLERANT” TO DIFFERENCE, THEY DO NOT ACUNT FOR S RACIST, SEXIST, AND XENOPHOBIC REALI AND POLICI – PARTICULARLY AGAST SYRIAN AND PALTIAN REFUGE, WORKG-CLASS DIVIDUALS, AND GENR NON-NORMATIVE AND TRANS PEOPLE. THIS FLATTENED PERCEPTN OF BEIT’S OPENNS TO “DIVERSY” OBSCUR THE POLIL ENOMY OF GAY SPAC. APPROACHG GAY SPAC THROUGH THE LENS OF POLIL ENOMY CENTRALIZ WHO HAS ACCS TO SUCH SPAC, SUCH AS THOSE WHO N PAY. IN ADDN, PAYS ATTENTN TO WHICH POPULATNS ARE UALLY TARGETED BY THE STATE. FOR EXAMPLE, THE 2013 POLICE RAID AND CLOSG OF THE GAY CLUB GHOST BEIT, POLICE TAED, HUIATED, AND VERBALLY AND PHYSILLY ABED SEVERAL GAY AND TRANS DIVIDUALS: MOST NOTABLY WORKG-CLASS AND GENR-NONNORMATIVE DIVIDUALS, AND SYRIAN NATNALS AND REFUGE. SUCH ACUNTS GET ERASED TALKG ABOUT “GAY BEIT,” TO THE EXTENT THAT BEIT’S “OPENNS” TO WHE GAY TRAVELERS IS MA POSSIBLE BY SUCH EXCLNARY PRACTIC AGAST UNSIRABLE GENRED, RACIALIZED, AND CLASSED OTHERS.BEIT SKYLE CY VIEW. PHOTO: GE AUFFARTH.VISIBLY GAY SPACE VS QUEERG SPACE

Papi, what is so gay about space?

Signed, Star Gayzer. I too have often asked myself: Fellas, is gay to st your gaze upon the night sky and ntemplate your place the vast universe?

Yeah, space is gay. Not gay as homosexual, but gay the elemental sense. Sounds gay.

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