Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

35 Entrapment of gay men in Kyrgyzstan is documented in Anna Kirey, “ ‘They said we deserved this’: Police violence against gay and bisexual men in Kyrgyzstan,” Human Rights Watch, January 28, 2014. Recent proposals for antigay legislation in Kyrgyzstan are the subject of Hugh Ryan, “Kyrgyzstan’s anti-gay law will likely pass next month, but has already led to violence,” Daily Beast, September 18, 2015.

35 Human consequences of the Indian court decision recriminalizing homosexuality are discussed in Andrew Buncombe, “India’s gay community scrambling after court decision recriminalises homosexuality,” Independent, February 26, 2014.

35 For a catalogue of homophobic laws in Africa, see Global Legal Research Directorate, “Laws on homosexuality in African nations,” Library of Congress, June 9, 2015.

35 For an exhaustive review of persecution of gay people in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, see Thomas Probert et al., “Unlawful killings in Africa,” Center for Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge, 2015. The chilling effects of Nigeria’s anti-gay legislation are documented in Katy Glenn Bass and Joey Lee, “Silenced voices, threatened lives: The impact of Nigeria’s anti-LGBTI law on freedom of expression,” PEN American Center, June 29, 2015.

35 The sentencing of Roger Jean-Claude Mbede and the ordeal of two other Cameroonian men jailed for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts are discussed in British Broadcasting Corporation, “Cameroon ‘gay sex’ men acquitted,” BBC News, January 7, 2013; see also David Artavia, “Cameroon’s ‘gay problem,’ ” Advocate, July 7, 2013.

35 For more details on Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s dramatic condemnation of homosexuals, see South African Press Association, “Mugabe condemns Europe’s gay ‘filth,’ ” IOL News, April 14, 2011; Obey Manayiti, “Mugabe chides homosexuals again,” NewsDay (Bulawayo), July 25, 2013; and Dan Littauer, “Mugabe promises ‘hell for gays’ in Zimbabwe if he wins,” Gay Star News, June 17, 2013.

35 The Ugandan legislature’s crusade against gays has entered a further round; see Saskia Houttuin, “Gay Ugandans face new threat from anti-homosexuality law,” Guardian, January 6, 2015.

36 Protests against surreptitious censorship of translated works by Chinese publishers are covered in Alexandra Alter, “China’s publishers court America as its authors scorn censorship,” New York Times, May 28, 2015; and PEN America, “Publishers’ pledge on Chinese censorship of translated works,” PEN America, October 15, 2015.

36 See Bettina Zilkha, “Andrew Solomon named President of PEN,” Forbes, March 5, 2015.

37 “Words are no deeds” occurs in William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, act 3, scene 2, line 152.

37 Emma Lazarus’s oft-quoted saying, “Until we are all free, we are none of us free,” originally appeared in “Epistle to the Hebrews,” a series of columns published in the American Hebrew from November 3, 1882, to February 23, 1883; see the centennial anthology, An Epistle to the Hebrews (1987), page 30.

37 Aung San Suu Kyi’s entreaty served as the title to her 1997 op-ed, “Please use your liberty to promote ours,” New York Times, February 4, 1997.

38 In relation to Dima Prigov in the living room, I am thinking in particular of Luis Buñuel’s brilliant 1972 film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

38 See “Reporter Daniel Pearl is dead, killed by his captors in Pakistan,” Wall Street Journal, February 24, 2002.

39 Proposals by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and other conservatives to staunch the entry of Muslims into the United States and routinely subject Muslim Americans to surveillance following the November 15 terrorist attacks in Paris are discussed in Jenna Johnson, “Conservative suspicions of refugees grow in wake of Paris attacks,” Washington Post, November 15, 2015; Jose DelReal, “Donald Trump won’t rule out warrantless searches, ID cards for American Muslims,” Washington Post, November 19, 2015; and Patrick Healy and Michael Barbaro, “Donald Trump calls for barring Muslims from entering U.S.,” New York Times, December 7, 2015.

39 See Brigitte Vittrup Simpson’s dissertation, “Exploring the influences of educational television and parent-child discussions on improving children’s racial attitudes,” University of Texas at Austin, May 2007. I became aware of her work via Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, “Even babies discriminate: A NurtureShock excerpt,” Newsweek, September 4, 2009.

40 The quote from Jung (“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool”) occurs on page 125 of his alchemical treatise, Mysterium Coniunctionis (1977).