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  1. Jan 2025
    1. homo sex u al ity itself, even as an eroticorientation, even as a specifi cally sexual subjectivity, consists in a dissidentway of feeling and relating to the world. That dissident way of feelingand relating to the world is reflected in gay male cultural practices.

      This reminds me of our discussion of Oscar Wilde being labeled as homosexual and how it pushed a lot of orientations of "gayness" into one category. Our discussion shined light on how homosexuality and specifically male homosexuality isn't just one way of being, but the usage of the word after the trail was made to be something bad, and single note. Homosexuality in this way exists, as the reading puts it, as difference from the norm, but it is not singular.