Liwat lil Thawra: LGBTQ radical activism in the Lebanese Revolution

Kassir, Abed Al Wahab (2022). Liwat lil Thawra: LGBTQ radical activism in the Lebanese Revolution (Submitted). Sexualities Sage

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The Lebanese revolution (2019) made two forms of LGBTQ activism visible. While Helem called for wide participation, affirming the importance of visibility, pride, and equality, others expressed more radical forms of the LGBTQ political agency. In this article, I concern myself with the second form, analyzing LGBTQ radical resistance as an approach and a new form self-politicisation. I look at the meanings behind their critical engagements and tactics, arguing that radical activists have broadened LGBTQ activism beyond the homonormative discourse of visibility and equality. They experience new forms of mobilization in the public space that stand against assimilation politics, and respectability politics, while creating a new form of what I call “LGBTQ emerging care” that emerged to empower and validate the self and the other.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften
UniBE Contributor:	Kassir, Abed Al Wahab
Subjects:	200 Religion > 290 Other religions 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services
ISSN:	1461-7382
Publisher:	Sage
Language:	English
Submitter:	Abed Al Wahab Kassir
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2023 09:39
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2023 23:27
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/180561