ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a critical textual analysis of the film Appropriate Behavior (2015) for its comedic representation of Brooklyn as a queer Iranian American utopia. The analysis is contextualised within the scholarship on queer creative potential in queer diasporic media production and the complicated relationship between Iranianness and whiteness in the United States. The aim of this chapter is to articulate and use a de-orientalising queer diasporic lens to examine how queer Iranians in the United States understand, navigate and imagine new identities and communities as racialised sexual minorities, by way of media forms.
