‘The L in HELEM is for lebanese’: Diasporic LGBT+ activism and HELEM Montreal’s shifting temporalities
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Queer studies have often overlooked the intersections of queer migration and LGBT + activism. This article addresses that gap by examining the diasporization of Lebanese LGBT + activism through the case of HELEM Montreal, active since 2004. Using online ethnography and semi-structured interviews, it foregrounds NGO temporality — an innovation in migration studies — by tracing HELEM’s shift from fundraising to service provision for LGBT + Arabs in Montreal. The article explores the organization’s future, through the engagement with Canada’s refugee sponsorship program, critically analyzing the challenges of LGBT + Arab representation, queer Orientalism, and the commodification of asylum within Global North politics.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it