Queer Beirut / by Sofian Merabet.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Merabet, Sofian, 1972- (Author)
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Gay men > Lebanon > Beirut. Gender identity > Lebanon > Beirut. Homosexuality > Lebanon > Beirut.

Table of Contents:

Prologue. Itinerant Journeys
Introduction
1. Producing Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter in Post-Civil-War Lebanon
2. Producing Prestige in and around Beirut: The Indiscreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and the Assertion of a Queer Presence
3. Walking through the Concrete Jungle: The Queer Urban Stroller Traveling amid de Certeau, Benjamin, and Bourdieu
4. Queer Performances and the Politics of Place: The Art of Drag and the Routine of Sectarianism
5. The Homosexual Sphere between Spatial Appropriation and Contestation: Collective Activism and the Many Lives of Young Gay Men in Beirut
6. The Queering of Closed and Open Spaces: Spatial Practices and the Dialectics of External and Internal Homophobia
7. The Gay Gaze on the Corniche and the Politics of Memory: A Stroll on the Corniche and a Walk through Zoqāq al-Blāṭ
8. "Seeing Oneself" and the Mirror Stage: The Ḥammām and the Gay Icon Fairuz
9. Phenomenology and the Spatial Assertion of Queerness: Spatial Alienation, Anthropology, and Urban Studies
10. Raising the Rainbow Flag between City and Country: Dancing, Protesting, and the Mimetics of Everyday Life
Conclusion. Struggling for Difference.

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