Sunday, September 30, 2007

Those Gay Western Imperialists?

clipped from volokh.com

Prof. BULLIET: Yeah. An open gay culture. He says that isn't what you have in the Arab world or in the Middle East. You have a long history of same sex relations that takes a variety of forms. Is not defined as gay or not gay. And Massad would say that the whole notion that gay culture is the same the world wide is an imposition of Western cultural imperialism. But people haven't read Massad's book yet, and so they aren't quite aware that that sort of gay denial of that type actually is academically respectable. Certainly, Ahmadinejad has not read that book.