In this article we examine accounts of self-identifying Iranian gay men. We draw on a range of evidentiary sources—interpretive, historical, online, and empirical—to generate critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation that inform narrative accounts of the lived experiences of self-identified gay Iranian men, and the constitution of same-sex desire for these men under specific conditions of Iranian modernity. In response to critiques of existing gay internationalist and liberationist accounts of the Iranian gay male subject as a persecuted victim of the Islamic Republic of Iran's barbarism, we address interpretive questions of sexuality governance in transnational contexts. Specifically, we attend to human rights frameworks in weighing social justice and political claims made by and on behalf of sexual and gender minorities in such Global South contexts. In this sense, our article represents a critical engagement with the relevant literature on sexuality governance and the politics of same-sex desire for Iranian gay men that is informed by empirical analysis.

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可识别性的政治：在性管理的压抑条件下对伊朗男同性恋者的生活进行说明

在这篇文章中，我们研究了自我认同的伊朗男同性恋者的描述。我们利用一系列证据来源——解释性的、历史的、在线的和经验性的——对承认和代表的政治产生批判性和细微的见解，这些见解为自我认同的伊朗同性恋男子的生活经历和宪法的叙述提供信息在伊朗现代性的特定条件下对这些男人的同性渴望。为了回应对现有同性恋国际主义者和解放主义者将伊朗男同性恋主体描述为伊朗伊斯兰共和国野蛮行为的迫害受害者的批评，我们解决了跨国背景下性治理的解释性问题。具体来说，在这种全球南方背景下，我们关注人权框架，权衡由性和性别少数群体及其代表所提出的社会正义和政治主张。从这个意义上说，我们的文章代表了对相关文献的批判性参与，这些文献通过实证分析获得了伊朗男同性恋者的性欲治理和同性欲望政治。