Re: Iran executes another queer
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