> The conventional notion in the modern US that gays
> are "unmacho and sensitive" is,
> of course just one historical experience. Or rather
> it is non-gays' stereotypical
> impression of what men are like who prefer other men
> as sexual partners. After all,
> such aggressive male types as the British and
> Prussian aristocracies in the
> nineteenth centuries often preferred homoerotic
> experience.
And there's the homo-homosexuality, as Eve Sedgwick put it, of Genet, who wrote: "to fuck another man is to be twice the man."
Alec
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