Journalistic and popular accounts have often extolled Beirut as a haven for gay men. These accounts of male homosexuality in Beirut–like this
Mathew Gagné and Adriana Qubaia
Mathew Gagné in an anthropology PhD student at the University of Toronto. His dissertation research focuses on the impact of gay dating technologies on the formations of queer subjectivities and socialities in Beirut. He has previously written on then topic in an article entitled “Queer Beirut online: the participation of men in Gayromeo.com” in the fall 2012 issue of the Journal of Middle East Women`s Studies.
Adriana Qubaia is a PhD candidate in the department of Gender Studies in the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Through ethnographic research in Beirut, she is exploring the mechanisms of gendering political activisms, including the interactions between politics of queer (in)visibility and sexual identity formations and negotiations.