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By Michael Luongo

shuttle past the terror and paranoia of 9/11 to event Muslim culture

Gay Travels within the Muslim global trips the place different homosexual commute books worry to tread—Muslim nations. This thought-provoking booklet tells either Muslim and non-Muslim homosexual men's tales of touring within the heart East in the course of those tough political instances. the genuine, very own stories exhibit how homosexual males have a good time their lives and conferences with neighborhood males, together with a homosexual soldier's tale of his journey of accountability in Iraq. Insightful and from time to time horny, this clever ebook is going past 9/11 and the current political and cultural divides to demonstrate the genuine reviews of homosexual males in hassle zones—in an attempt to hunt peace for all.

After the cave in of the dual Towers, fears approximately terrorism and Muslim tradition went hand in hand. homosexual Travels within the Muslim global enters the present battle zones to deliver actual and extremely own tales of homosexual males who dwell and go back and forth in those harmful components. This publication demanding situations readers' preconceptions and assumptions approximately either homosexuality and being Muslim, whereas displaying the big variety of experiences—good and bad—about the areas in addition to the variations in attitudes and ideology.

Excerpts from homosexual Travels within the Muslim World:

From “I wish Your Eyes” via David Stevens
Men through themselves are infrequent. I move a good-looking Omani guy sitting at the Corniche wall with a cigarette among his lengthy brown arms. He wears his vibrant cuma cap at a jaunty perspective and his mustard-coloured dishdasha has risen as much as demonstrate tantalizingly furry calves. I notice the conscientiously made holes in his ears—not in his ear lobes yet deep contained in the cartilages—a pre-Islamic customized nonetheless practiced on a few male infants to thrust back evil spirits. I come to a decision it matches him.

From “It All begun with Mamadou” by way of Jay Davidson
Drawing definitive conclusions a few society after residing the following for a bit greater than a yr isn't a sensible, secure, or in charge motion on my half. If a society's tradition is a mosaic of millions of little tiles, then i admire to imagine that what i've been capable of piece jointly has been a tableau within which sure elements became discernable, a few are rather less transparent, and others stay in a manner that i'm going to by no means see as complete and comprehensible.

From “A marketplace and a Mosque” by way of Martin Foreman
Sylhet, Bangladesh: it truly is 8 o'clock within the night and Tarique and Paritosh are taking me out to examine the cruising spots. till I flew in the following this afternoon, all I knew of the provincial urban and the encircling zone was once that it used to be the place many of the Bangladeshis within the united kingdom come from—and given that many of the Bangladeshis within the united kingdom dwell in my domestic borough of Tower Hamlets, i believe a type of affinity with where. even if Sylhet feels an affinity with me is a unique matter.

From “Work In growth: Notes From a continual trip of producing Dissent” by means of Parvez Sharma
In the development of the picture and lifetime of the “queer” Muslim is additionally the attention of the no longer so popular proven fact that a sexual revolution of large proportions got here to the earliest Muslims, a few 1,300 years earlier than the West had even considered it. This promise of equivalent gender rights and, not like within the Bible, the tension on intercourse as not only copy but additionally leisure in the confines of marriage has all yet been misplaced within the rhetoric spewing from loudspeakers perched on Masjid's—or mosques—in Riyadh, Marrakech and Islamabad. an identical Islam that has for hundreds of years not just tolerated but in addition brazenly celebrated homosexuality is, this present day, used to justify a state-sanctioned pogrom opposed to homosexual males in Egypt—America's “enlightened” pal within the center East.

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