US queer liberalism and anti-immigrant homophobia claims are linked

Evidence

Despite the critique of liberalism embedded in these biographic trajectories that explain one’s involvement with terrorism, the United States is portrayed as liberal and progressive compared to Islam. Eng writes that the productions of queer liberalism, or normative homosexuality, and the discourse of racialized immigrant misogyny and homophobia are two sides of the same coin. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1059

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s overarching claim about how media humanize some while marking others; also the reader’s ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ piece on class/identity signaling tangentially.