Guest privileges : queer lives and finding home in the Middle East / Gaar Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Gaar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Conduct of life.

Middle East.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minority community--Middle East.

Sexual minority community.

LGBTQ+ communities.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 291 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : Harvill Secker, 2024.

Summary:

Upon moving to the Gulf States - where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death - Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril. From the UAE to Bahrain and Oman to Saudi Arabia - a region where four out of five residents are noncitizens - he begins riskily gathering interviews outside the tightly controlled state media, leading with what he thinks is a simple question - Isn't it harder for you to make a life here? As Gaar begins his own clandestine queer relationship, fault lines and deeper questions begin to emerge - about what we perpetuate and refuse to examine, and how we balance opportunity, risk, subversion and assimilation. Weaving memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of dislocation not just through the Gulf States - one of the most maligned and misunderstood regions in the world - but into the very nature of home, belonging and how we form a life and community.

ISBN:

9781787303706

1787303705

OCLC:

1440100961

Publisher Number:

90100491611