In light of an ambiguous legal situation in countries like Lebanon and Egypt concerning homosexuality, this article looks at how some individuals are able to reconfigure their identities and sexual desires through the online dating app Tinder, and the negotiation of sociopolitical identity signifiers in a Lebanese context. On the other hand, LGBTIQ individuals and those with non-normative
... [Show full abstract] sexualities are persecuted by the Egyptian state as a result of those same practices, resulting in a collapse in the online/offline binary.