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ADIRA: Drag, Nostalgia and Queer Arab Spaces
Many elements in Arab pop culture are already very drag and very queer. ADIRA Drag Festival emerged from a need to create our own queer Arab space.
Erdogan’s queer moment
[Editor’s note: This article is part of Al-Jumhuriya’s “Gender, Sexuality, and Power” series. It was also published in Arabic on 22 November, 2018.] There is an astonishing picture of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey, and Bülent Ersoy, a famous trans singer, having dinner together. Erdoğan’s wife Emine Erdoğan and another singer, Sibel Can, are sharing the same table. Everyone is smiling; everyone seems…
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