The Straight State

Canaday, Margot

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“…Though the United States has historically sought to produce a heterosexual nation and to shore up the homosexual/heterosexual binary (Canaday ), queer asylum suggests that this divide is not so clear, and part of the reason is, paradoxically, because of the state. Recognition of queer sexual identities through asylum law increasingly blurs any (imagined) crisp dividing line between heterosexuals and homosexuals, as bisexuals and even those with imputed and ambiguous sexual identities are officially recognized by the state.…”

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“…Though the United States has historically excluded and discriminated against sexual “deviants” (Canaday ; Luibheid ; Shah ), the “queer exception” to legal protections has recently begun to fade (Kornbluh ). One of the earliest “exceptions” to disappear was the bar on queers entering the country, which was repealed in 1990, just months after the Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed an immigration judge's decision to allow a Cuban man to remain in the United States because of persecution he had faced on account of his homosexual identity .…”

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Legally Queer: The Construction of Sexuality in LGBQ Asylum Claims

Vogler

2016

Law Soc Rev

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Using court decisions, interviews with legal actors, and ethnographic observations, this paper analyzes the development of sexual identity classifications for sexual minorities seeking asylum in the United States and argues that the adjudication of such claims works to consolidate and regulate sexual identities but also creates possibilities for recognizing marginalized queer identities. Asylum seekers must prove their sexual identities, and immigration officials must classify claimants as belonging to a protected group. At the inception of queer asylum law in 1990, protected categories were highly circumscribed, but the indeterminacy of the law allowed advocates and asylum seekers to challenge existing categories and stake out new claims based on their sexualities. Against the backdrop of extant criticisms of the asylum process for queers, this paper suggests that the way asylum law has been elaborated, adapted, and interpreted, particularly in approximately the past decade, offers possibilities for making unique identity claims that are not recognized in existing scholarship.

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Legally Queer: The Construction of Sexuality in LGBQ Asylum Claims

Vogler

2016

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“…Men who went to gay bars or cruised in public parks or toilets faced constant fear of arrest. 86 This makes Hauser's (admittedly closeted) success as a food expert somewhat surprising. But from the hairdresser Antoine in turn-of-the century Paris to 'America's Next Top Model' fashion advisor, Simon Doonan, men who lived their lives outside of heterosexual masculine norms have long advised women on how to make themselves beautiful.…”

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‘Look Younger, Live Longer’: Ageing Beautifully with Gayelord Hauser in America, 1920–1975

Carstairs¹

2014

Gender & History

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“…While for men, the first half of the twentieth century saw a growing concern with male same-sex sexuality among white men in the United States, the parallel concerns of 'perversion' and 'deviance' for white women centred on abnormal heterosexuality. 102 Informed by their ambiguous racial position, Syrian women peddlers not only endangered their safety, but any possible claim to sexual normativity and whiteness.…”

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An Archive of Difference: Syrian Women, the Peddling Economy and US Social Welfare, 1880–1935

Albrecht¹

2016

Gender & History

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Historians have scrutinised the racial classifications of Arab immigrants in the census, in immigration documents and in early‐twentieth‐century naturalisation cases. However, recent scholarship has shown that other archives – ones that do not focus on interactions with the law – reveal a different process of Arab‐American racialisation. This article contends that looking in other archival spaces, specifically the US social welfare archive, shows how ideas about gender, sexual and class difference constituted early Arab‐American racialisation. Social welfare reformers in institutional settings, including the International Institute of Boston, the National Conference of Social Work and the pages of the social work periodical The Survey, systematically linked Syrian labouring practices with notions of dependency, sexual and gender deviance, and Orientalist difference. Syrian women were racialised through their participation in the peddling economy – a network of peddlers, suppliers and domestic labourers that sustained a widespread profession of the early Syrian American community. Syrian women's labouring practices conflicted with white middle‐class femininity and posed a threat to Syrian claims of whiteness. This analysis demonstrates the centrality of gender, sexuality and class to studies of early Arab America and demonstrates how Arab migrant women's labouring practices affected their communities’ standing in the American context.

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The Straight State

Cited by 377 publications

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Legally Queer: The Construction of Sexuality in LGBQ Asylum Claims

Legally Queer: The Construction of Sexuality in LGBQ Asylum Claims

‘Look Younger, Live Longer’: Ageing Beautifully with Gayelord Hauser in America, 1920–1975

An Archive of Difference: Syrian Women, the Peddling Economy and US Social Welfare, 1880–1935

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