Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This separation of causes is more than a matter of convenience or taste, though. Tarazi notes that the Palestinian culture he admires in many ways also includes very traditional views of homosexuality...
...Tarazi does not like to mix his causes, nor does he give them equal importance in his life. "I don't want people to see me as a gay Palestinian," he says. Tarazi would rather be a Palestinian activist in public and a defender of gay rights in private conversation, he says...
Tarazi says he would not wear a pink triangle for gay rights to a Palestinian cultural event or a Palestinian kaffiyeh to a gay pride march. He seems to find it difficult enough to defend one controversial cause at a time, let alone to argue successfully for two very different causes with different constituencies...
Kaplan says Tarazi is not religious, nor does he "get misty-eyed about the orange groves of Palestine." Perhaps because he challenges traditional mores personally, Tarazi takes a very secular view of the Palestinian cause, says Kaplan...
Three years later, the family moved to the United States at the invitation of relatives who had been stranded there because of the occupation. Throughout Tarazi's childhood, his parents never told him why they moved to the United States or even that he was Palestinian...