[lbo-talk] Re: Lit Crit frees Queers!

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Tue Sep 16 14:56:09 PDT 2003


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 at 2:07pm BklynMagus wrote:


> Really. Kennedy writes in his opinion:
>
> "The absence of legal prohibitions focusing on homosexual
> conduct may be explaining in part by noting that according
> to some scholars the concept of the homosexual as a
> dinstinct category of person did not emerge did not emerge
> until the late 19th century. See, e.g., The Invention of
> Heterosexuality 10 (1995); J. D'Emilio & E. Freedman,
> Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality 121 (2nd ed.
> 1997) (The modern terms "homosexuality" and
> "heterosexuality" do not apply to an era that had not yet
> articulated these distinctions.")

Kewl, thanks.

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