# Guest Privileges

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- Book: [Guest Privileges](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaar-adams/guest-privileges) ([Guest Privileges.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaar-adams/guest-privileges.md))
- Authors: [Gaar Adams](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaar-adams)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2992-508-1
- Published: 2024-03-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction 'An eye-opening tour de force' ALEX ESPINOZA 'Exhilarating' SUSAN ORLEAN 'Tender and insightful' MOHAMED TONSY Upon moving to the Gulf States – where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death – Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril. He begins riskily gathering interviews outside the tightly controlled state media, leading with what he thinks is a simple question: Isn't it harder for you to make a life here? But as unforgettable residents share a kaleidoscope of stories – from uproarious Filipino salon workers throwing secret drag parties to a courageous Pakistani farmhand who helps his compatriots smuggle themselves across borders – deeper questions and fault lines begin to emerge alongside the halting steps into Gaar’s own clandestine relationship. Weaving intimate and illuminating memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of dislocation – not just through the Gulf States, but into the very nature of home, belonging and how we form a life and community. 'Vividly reported and luminously reflective' NADIA OWUSU 'I was captivated and carried' ADAM ZMITH ‘Adams gives a voice to a queer community we hear much about, but little from…offering hope in a world witnessing the concerted rollback of queer rights' HUGO GREENHALGH