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Within that population then, people whose sexual subjectivities do not conform to these internalized standards of gender and gender-normative behavior are excluded from participation and in large part symbolically erased. This was the personal experience of a number of my informants, who described feeling utterly disconnected from the gay and lesbian life they saw on television and out in bars. They felt as if they had no outlet in which to safely explore and express their sexualities. ” The point is that in order to be able to enjoy these rights, one must adhere to the culturally recognized articulations of “gay” and “lesbian” identity.
This politics of belonging (Yuval-Davis 2006) is the discursive context within which subjectivities in Israel, sexual or otherwise, are formed, and therefore represents the analytical starting point for our examination of the position of lesbians and gays in Israeli society. Israel, Zionism and Sexual Subjectivity 43 Zionist thought and the pre-state Yishuv One of the most pervasive tenets of early Zionist thought was the belief that Jews in the Diaspora led a disembodied existence (Biale 1997).
Superficially, neither of these sets of rights tends to be legislated. While statutory prohibitions against libel or defamatory representations of particular groups certainly exist, laws tend not to require that non-dominant populations be depicted in the media, for example. Rather, an appeal is normally made to free-market forces, whereby an adequate level of demand for a particular depiction will eventually result in its appearance. This is also applicable in the area of economic rights, wherein products, services or modes of consumption affiliated with a particular group obtain because there is a demand for them.