[lbo-talk] Gore Vidal: Lincoln Was, Like, Totally Gay

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Tue Jan 4 09:57:32 PST 2005


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>As Kinsey argued, homosexuality/heterosexuality is not an "either/or"
>proposition but a continuum measured on a scale 1-10. Most people fall
>somewhere in between.
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>However, that notion does not sail very well in the US political discourse
>that, influenced by Puritanism and racism, prefers to see things in black
>and white terms.
>
The thing that gets me is that this black/white stuff influences everybody's discourse -- that of "gays" as well as that of "straights."

There are lots of gay folks that are just as insistent on choosing one way or another, and if not, asserting that you're in "denial."

Joanna


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