Unlike lbian cricism, gay cricism don’t tend to foc on efforts to fe homosexualy. Sexual relatns between men, or even jt the sexual sire of one man for another, is the generally accepted crern of gayns whe middle-class Ameri today. Neverthels, not all cultur share this fn. For example, Mexin and South Amerin…
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- 17 - GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, QUEER AND TRANSGENR CRICISM
- GAY CRICISM
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
17 - GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL, QUEER AND TRANSGENR CRICISM
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Sexual relatns between men, or even jt the sexual sire of one man for another, is the generally accepted crern of gayns whe middle-class Ameri today. For example, Mexin and South Amerin cultur, the mere fact of sexual activy wh or sire for another male do not dite that a man is homosexual. The same fn of homosexualy was ed whe Amerin workg-class culture around the turn of the twentieth century: only men who allowed themselv to be perated by a man durg sex and behaved a tradnally feme manner—submissive, y, flirtat, “soft”—were nsired homosexual.
A siar problem for ntemporary whe middle-class assumptns about homosexualy is offered by ancient Athens, where there was no polar opposn between homosexual and heterosexual behavr. In fact, wasn’t until the neteenth century that the notn of homosexual inty and even the word homosexual were adopted Anglo-European and Amerin culture. The ia that one uld be a homosexual me along wh the ia, promoted by the medil profsns, that such an inty was a form of pathology.