[lbo-talk] Re:the market that dares not speak its name?

[B.]

I suppose there are traces of that in Stalin's belief
that homosexuality was "bourgeois decadence."

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:31 AM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Re:the market that dares not speak
its name?


> John Kozak wrote:
> 
> >Doug Henwood writes:
> >
> >>  There's a myth, going back to Roman times, that
gay men are
> >>  affluent. 
> >
> >Really?  Was there even a social role equivalent to
our "gay man" back
> >then?
> 
> I lifted that from Badgett. I suppose the
appropriate way of phrasing 
> it was that men having sex with men was framed as a
vice of the upper 
> classes. Obviously there weren't "gay men" in the
sense we think of 
> it now.
> 
> Doug

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