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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GAY CRICISM
), Neteenth-Century Wrgs on Homosexualy: A Sourcebook, London: Routledge, ScholarWtig, Monique, The Straight Md and Other Essays, Hemel Hempstead: Harvter Wheatsheaf, Scholar. 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.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
This is why many gay men today prefer to refer to themselv as gay: the word homosexual is associated, for many, wh the belief that homosexualy is a medil or psychologil disorr. The pot here is that attus toward homosexualy, like attus toward sexualy general, differ wily om one place to another and om one historil perd to another. The tense antigay sentiment that emerged an pecially ncentrated and vilent form Ameri durg the early 1950s and that lgers today do not reprent some kd of universally held attu toward, or even fn of, homosexualy.
How do beg gay fluence the way one se the world, se onelf and others, creat and rponds to art and mic, creat and terprets lerature, or experienc and exprs emotn? In a heterosexist culture such as the twenty-first century Ameri, gay sensibily clus an awarens of beg different, at least certa ways, om the members of the mastream, domant culture, and the plex feelgs that rult om an implic, ongog social opprsn. In other words, part of seeg the world as a gay man clus the ways which one als wh beg opprsed as a gay man.