![]() To understand the issue, one has to engage in what the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls a "para-doxical" thinking that challenges common sense and common sentiments. The formation of homosexual identities in Beirut is dependent upon the individual's circumstances as well as the pressures-both subtle and, sometimes, overt-of society at large. Moreover, both allow for a general understanding of post-civil war consumerism in Lebanon and the ways in which certain spaces become contested and appropriated as "queer" by different individuals, but always in accordance with the usually defiant character of their respective social environments. ![]() ![]() Both magnifying glasses are necessary in order to disentangle the intricate techniques of individual identity constructions, ranging from various displays of "conspicuous" behavior to the widespread discriminatory politics of homophobia. Yet assessing the vicissitudes of homosexual identities, along with their disavowal, requires using a microscope and a telescope at the same time. ![]() As an urban microcosm, Beirut seems to embrace all the paradoxes and incongruities that characterize any city. ![]()
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