ABSTRACT
One of the most compelling questions facing postcolonial queer scholarship today is the extent to which comparative analyses of same-sex desires in indigenous contexts, and even the terms used to name dissident sexualities, are in themselves acts of imperialism if they originate in the West. Transferring national or global stigma from one group to another operated in the case of those Arab Muslim men abused physically and sexually at Abu Ghraib Prison and forced to display and perform their naked bodies as "queer", which was discovered to have happened between 2003 and 2004 during the US occupation of Iraq. However, given the influence of queer politics, which arose out of a resistance to the fixed identities imposed under Apartheid and became linked in the transitional period with broader African National Congress (ANC) commitments to all forms of equality in the political sphere, the heteronormative slant in these studies has become more than evident.
