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20 GAY GREEK GODS
Gay. While all this is gog on, I am experiencg a guilt trip of the hight orr, torn between the possibily of livg the life I SHOULD have been livg for the last 50 years, and the semi-fortable life I had been preparg both of for for the remag who knows how many years, knowg now that I am gay, and therefore always have been, and that is why my married life has never felt que right, and now feels que wrong, havg seen what an tense love for someone of the same sex CAN feel like. In Catch-22, homosocial relatnships are scribed jotly as homosexual.
Heller begs the novel wh this quotatn, g the rear associate homosocialy and homosexualy. He scrib the appeal of male/male relatnships as based romantic sire, a ncept that is ually lked to homosexualy or homoromanticism, a term that refers to the romantic clatn of a ually asexual person for others of the same sex.
Even when homosocialy and homosexualy are prent, do not follow that one preterm the other. Sedgwick warns agast this her book, Between Men, statg that is not te that “genal homosexual sire [is] ‘at the root of’ other forms of male homosocialy. Heller’s narratn enurag the rear to draw an associatn between homosocialy and homoromanticism, which are more feasibly tied together.