Analyzing the films’ portrayal of the semiotics of forbidden desire, internalized homophobia, and the circulation and spatialization of queer sexualities in Morocco, this article argues that Salvation Army and Much Loved complicate our understanding of Arab masculinities and add to a growing queer visibility that stretches from the Maghreb to the Gulf. NOTHING justifies transphobia or racism or teaching the homeless awful things but the salvation army factually have been transparent FINANCIALLY and I have no. The last law criminalizing homosexuality was stricken to adhere to new. Survivors of historical sexual abuse at an Anglican school in Gippsland are speaking out about a disparity in compensation payments to different victims. While these films address issues of sexual tourism, incest, and prostitution, among others, the focus of this article is on the films’ critiques of internalized homophobia, sexual tourism, and the sociopolitical power structures that occlude, marginalize, or shame those males outside of the heterosexual matrix. Technically no, theres no law criminalizing homosexual acts under Russia Federal law.
In 1986, the New Zealand branch of the charity collected signatures against the Homosexual Law. This article examines how two pioneering films, Abdellah Taïa's Salvation Army and Nabil Ayouch's Much Loved, contribute to an emerging cultural politics in the Arab-speaking world that is reframing marginalized or invisible sexualities. The history of the Salvation Army’s anti-LGBTI discrimination traces back to at least the 1980s.
In the last decade, Franco-Moroccan directors have begun to explore culturally taboo and unrepresented sexual communities within Morocco.