"Gay Lerature: Poetry and Prose" published on by Oxford Universy Prs." name="scriptn
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GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
* gay history and literature *
Advot of queer theory claim that both heterosexualy and homosexualy are socially nstcted and that there is nothg “natural” about any sexual inty.
The dividual and his or her wrgs are no longer nsired to be “sentially” gay or straight but stead are ponents a broad polil disurse.
The same nclns, however, n be ed to margalize gay wrgs by makg them seem merely one of many lser disurs the plexi of human sexual exprsn. Bisexualy has been viewed wh gay studi as distct om homosexualy, and bisexuals have found themselv exclud om gay events and anizatns although a great many “gay ins” om Socrat to Shakpeare to Osr Wil were married and fathered children. Another divisive issue has volved the qutn of whether lbians and gay men should be tegorized as part of the same social and polil realy.