This paper analyses and critically discusses experiences and narratives of sexuality disclosure and concealment of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background living in Brussels. It does so by presenting data collected over a year of ethnographic research in the city. The “closet/coming out” metaphor is central in western discourses around LGBTQ identities and sexualities, and its wide circulation resulted in its conflations with a number of different meanings. Rather than simply being a descriptive metaphor, it comes to represent a linear, tautological, and normative path of LGBTQ liberation, leading the LGBTQ subject from an “in” of darkness and secrecy to an “out” of transparency and authenticity. Queer of colour scholars have noted how the metaphor, and the prescriptive path it traces, often fails to capture and understand the experiences of racialised LGBTQ people. Elaborating on queer of colour critiques to the normativity charted by coming out discourses, this paper argues for the unpacking and deconstruction of the binary and linear trajectory from “in” to “out” of the closet to understand the experiences of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background. In particular, it argues for a focus on silence as a productive site, on non-disclosure of sexuality as a functional strategy, and on the ways in which knowledge about sexualities can often circulate in tacit ways. As a result, the rigidity of the closet is disrupted, and its borders emerge as porous and flexible in the experiences of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background.

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完全在里面、外面或其他地方：超越生活在布鲁塞尔的穆斯林背景的 LGBTQ 人生活中壁橱的二元结构

本文分析并批判性地讨论了生活在布鲁塞尔的穆斯林背景下的 LGBTQ 人群的性暴露和隐瞒的经历和叙述。它通过展示在该市一年多的人种学研究中收集的数据来实现这一目标。“壁橱/出柜”隐喻是西方关于 LGBTQ 身份和性取向的话语的中心，它的广泛流传导致了它与许多不同含义的混​​淆。它不仅仅是一个描述性的比喻，它代表了 LGBTQ 解放的线性、同义反复和规范的路径，将 LGBTQ 主体从黑暗和秘密的“进入”到透明和真实的“退出”。奇怪的色彩学者注意到了这个比喻，以及它所追踪的规定路径，经常无法捕捉和理解种族化 LGBTQ 人群的经历。本文详细阐述了对出柜话语所描绘的规范性的酷儿色彩批评，主张对从“进”到“出”壁橱的二元和线性轨迹进行解构和解构，以了解 LGBTQ 人从穆斯林的经历背景。特别是，它主张将沉默作为一种生产场所，将不公开性行为作为一种功能性策略，以及关于性行为的知识通常可以以隐性方式传播的方式。结果，壁橱的刚性被破坏了，它的边界在来自穆斯林背景的 LGBTQ 人的经历中变得多孔而灵活。本文主张从壁橱“进”到“出”的二元线性轨迹的解构和解构，以了解来自穆斯林背景的 LGBTQ 人群的经历。特别是，它主张将沉默作为一种生产场所，将不公开性行为作为一种功能性策略，以及关于性行为的知识通常可以以隐性方式传播的方式。结果，壁橱的刚性被破坏了，它的边界在来自穆斯林背景的 LGBTQ 人的经历中变得多孔而灵活。本文主张从壁橱“进”到“出”的二元线性轨迹的解构和解构，以了解来自穆斯林背景的 LGBTQ 人群的经历。特别是，它主张将沉默作为一种生产场所，将不公开性行为作为一种功能性策略，以及关于性行为的知识通常可以以隐性方式传播的方式。结果，壁橱的刚性被破坏了，它的边界在来自穆斯林背景的 LGBTQ 人的经历中变得多孔而灵活。关于不公开性行为作为一种功能性策略，以及关于性行为的知识通常可以以隐性方式传播的方式。结果，壁橱的刚性被破坏了，它的边界在来自穆斯林背景的 LGBTQ 人的经历中变得多孔而灵活。关于不公开性行为作为一种功能性策略，以及关于性行为的知识通常可以以隐性方式传播的方式。结果，壁橱的刚性被破坏了，它的边界在来自穆斯林背景的 LGBTQ 人的经历中变得多孔而灵活。