Another Struggle: Sexual Identity Politics in Unsettled Turkey

[Natasha]

Another Struggle: Sexual Identity Politics in Unsettled Turkey

http://khaldoun.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/another-struggle-sexual-identity-politics-in-unsettled-turkey/
9/15/2008


What happens when almost 3,000 men, women and transgender people march down the main street of a major Muslim metropolis, chanting against patriarchy, the military and restrictive public morals, waving the rainbow flag and hoisting banners decrying homophobia and demanding an end to discrimination? Or when a veiled ->-bleeped-<- carries a placard calling for freedom of education for women wearing the headscarf and, for transsexuals, the right to work?