This chapter serv as the troductn to our eded volume Michel Fouult and Sexuali and Genrs Edutn: Friendship as Ascis. Here we troduce to the rear Fouult’s 1981 terview wh the French gay magaze, Le Gai Pied, tled...
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David M. Halper , Michel Fouult, Jean Le Boux, and the Gay ScienceLost and Found: An Introductn, Cril Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Sprg 2011), pp. 371-380 * was michel foucault gay *
What few people know about Fouult, apart om orthodox leftists, is that Fouult beme an apologist for palism precisely on acunt of his homosexualy.
Th sexualy, and Fouult’s se homosexualy, are ele enterpris pennt upon leisure time. John D’E, one of the most proment Fouult scholars and himself a gay activist, explaed Fouult’s sights this way:.
It has ma possible the formatn of urban muni of lbians and gay men and, more recently, of a polics based on a sexual inty. Fouult was not alone this “disvery” among gay, trans, and femist activists and “scholars. Anythg that threatened this realy would prove harmful to homosexuals and to women (acrdg to Firtone).
Michel Fouult , Nilae Morar, Daniel W. Smh, The Gay Science, Cril Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Sprg 2011), pp. 385-403 * was michel foucault gay *
”[4] The end rult of this new speci of sexualy was the homosexual man, “The neteenth-century homosexual beme a personage, a past, a se study, and a childhood, addn to beg a type of life form, and a morphology, wh an discreet anatomy and possibly a myster physlogy. It was everywhere prent him: at the root of all his actns bee was their sid and fely active prciple… The sodome had been a temporary aberratn; the homosexual was now a speci. In his study of the history of sexualy and the birth of the new speci of human: the homosexual, Fouult nclud several thgs which rg te for the ted and prcient observer of today.
First, the homosexual is a product of morny. More specifilly, the homosexual is a product of palism and technology. Send, homosexualy and other forms of alternative sexuali flourish wealthy ci where leisure is readily accsible.