TY - JOUR
T1 - Muslim gay men: identity conflict and politics in a Muslim majority nation
AU - Hamdi, Nassim
AU - Lachheb, Monia
AU - Anderson, Eric
PY - 2017/12/8
Y1 - 2017/12/8
N2 - While a number of investigations have examined how gay Muslim men view homosexuality in relation to religious Western homophobia, this research constitutes the first account of the experiences of self-identified gay men living in an African, Muslim nation, where same-sex sex is both illegal and actively persecuted. We interviewed 28 gay men living in Tunisia in order to understand how they assimilate their sexual, religious and ethnic identities within a highly homophobic culture. Utilizing notions of homoerasure and homohysteria (McCormack and Eric Anderson 2014a, b), and examining the intersection of identity conflict and new social movement theory, we highlight four strategies that participants use to negotiate the dissonance of living with conflicting identities in a context of religious homophobia:(1) privileging their Islamic identities and rejecting homosexuality as a legitimate sexual …
AB - While a number of investigations have examined how gay Muslim men view homosexuality in relation to religious Western homophobia, this research constitutes the first account of the experiences of self-identified gay men living in an African, Muslim nation, where same-sex sex is both illegal and actively persecuted. We interviewed 28 gay men living in Tunisia in order to understand how they assimilate their sexual, religious and ethnic identities within a highly homophobic culture. Utilizing notions of homoerasure and homohysteria (McCormack and Eric Anderson 2014a, b), and examining the intersection of identity conflict and new social movement theory, we highlight four strategies that participants use to negotiate the dissonance of living with conflicting identities in a context of religious homophobia:(1) privileging their Islamic identities and rejecting homosexuality as a legitimate sexual …
U2 - 10.1111/1468-4446.12334
DO - 10.1111/1468-4446.12334
M3 - Article
VL - 69
JO - British Journal of Sociology
JF - British Journal of Sociology
SN - 0007-1315
IS - 4
ER -