Gay life stories: same-sex desires in post-revolutionary Iran

1. Introduction -- 2. Reading Foucault in Tehran -- 3. The Historical Contingencies and the Politics of Same-Sex Desire in Iran -- 4. The Construction of the Iranian Gay Subject Outside of Iran -- 5. Ethical Relationality and Accounts of Gay Iranian Men -- 6. Iranian Gay/Queer Activists and Activism -- 7. The "Sick Gay": Being HIV-positive in Iran -- 8. Gay/Queer Spaces in Tehran: Intimacy, Sociality, and Resistance -- 9. Conclusion: Gay Livability in a Queer Dystopia

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- "Tintin" in Tehran-Entering the Field -- The "Naive" Researcher: Some Thoughts About My Positionality -- Welcome to Iran: The Field of My Research -- Ethics Upside Down: Doing Ethnography Underground -- References -- Chapter 2: Reading Foucault in Tehran -- A Foucauldian Lens on Power -- Space of Other: Disciplinary and Heterotopic Space(s) -- Technologies of the Self: Caring and Knowing -- Confessions of the Sex(uality) -- References -- Chapter 3: The Historical Contingencies and the Politics of Same-Sex Desire in Iran -- Erasure of the Memory of Homosociality: From Pre-modernity to Modernity -- Occidentosis: A Plague from the West -- The Last Years of the Shah and Establishment of the Islamic Republic -- Post-Revolutionary Iran: Gay as an Identity Category -- References -- Chapter 4: The Construction of the Iranian Gay Subject Outside of Iran -- Victimization -- The Discourse of Binary Oppositions -- References -- Chapter 5: Ethical Relationality and Accounts of Gay Iranian Men -- Knowing Oneself-Adopting a Gay Identity -- Straight Masks-Gay Identity -- Sex in the City: Having Gay Sex in Tehran -- Not Becoming a "Real" Man: Marriage and Conscription -- Living Together as a Gay Couple in Tehran -- Transforming the Self: Emigrate to the West or Live as a Gay Subject in Iran -- Claiming Space Through Working at the Limit at the Self -- References -- Chapter 6: Iranian Gay/Queer Activists and Activism -- "Gandalf Is My God": Becoming a Gay/Queer Activist -- Battle of the Words: Claiming a Discursive Space Within the Official Discourse on Same-Sex Desires -- The Green Movement-A Queer/Gay Perspective -- Beyond Queer/Gay Visibility and Recognition -- References -- Chapter 7: The "Sick Gay": Being HIV-positive in Iran.