5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Prologue. Itinerant Journeys xv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil- War Lebanon 11
8. 2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence 43
9. 3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu 69
10. 4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism 91
11. 5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut 112
12. 6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia 134
13. 7. The Gay Gaze and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoqāq al-Blāṭ 156
14. 8. “Seeing Oneself” and the Mirror Stage: The Ḥammām and the Gay Icon Fairuz 187
15. 9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies 210
16. 10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life 227
17. Conclusion. Struggling for Difference 246
18. Notes 249
19. Glossary of Transliterated Arabic Terms 261
20. Bibliography 265
21. Index 275