Why being gay means absolutely nothing

Is it your point that the homosexual movement should not stop at liberalizing laws relating to personal sexual choice but should also be provoking society at large to rethink its own presuppositions regarding sexuality? Sexuality is different from gender identity and they do not have correlation with each other.

I say freedom of sexual choice and not freedom of sexual acts because there are sexual acts like rape which should not be permitted whether they involve a man and a woman or two men. It has, for instance, on different occasions taken the form of membership in a kind of secret society, membership in a cursed race, membership in a segment of humanity at once privileged and persecuted, all kinds of different modes of collective consciousness, just as, incidentally, the consciousness of unskilled laborers has undergone numerous transformations.

As an historian yourself, do you find his methodology valid? Just like straight couples, people in same-sex relationships have ups-and-downs, break-ups, and make-ups. MF : This is certainly a very important study whose originality is already evident from the way in which it poses the question.

MF : No, none of these. On the level of investigative results, this methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of homosexuality does not date back to Christianity properly speaking, but developed within the Christian era at a much later date.

It is also the consciousness one has of what one is doing, what one makes of the experience, and the value one attaches to it. So why do people think it’s a choice?. JOH : I take it, then, that your point is that the homosexual movement should not only give itself the goal of enlarging legal permissiveness but should also be asking broader and deeper questions about the strategic roles played by sexual preferences and how they are perceived.

There’s no customizing your character, you are attracted to a gender and there’s nothing you can do to change it. Answer: Absolutely! That’s it. How do you envision the political goals of homosexuals as a group? Now, there has been considerable progress in this area on the level of legislation, certainly progress in the direction of tolerance, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

Second, a homosexual movement could adopt the objective of posing the question of the place in a given society which sexual choice, sexual behavior and the effects of sexual relations between people could have with regard to the individual. Ought homosexuals to be encouraged to think of themselves as a class in the way that unskilled laborers or black people are encouraged to in some countries?

Myth #6: Gender-neutral bathrooms are exclusively for LGBTQIA+ people; cis-heterosexual people should only use clearly-marked men’s or women’s restrooms. By this I mean the liberty to manifest that choice or not to manifest it. Reality: Being gay does not mean that the person identifies as a member of opposite gender.

It is true that more recently certain homosexuals have, following the political model, developed or tried to create a certain class consciousness. Being gay is obviously not a choice and I don’t understand why people think it is. Look, for example, at the confusion and equivocation that surround pornography, or the lack of elucidation which characterizes the question of the legal status which might be attached to the liaison between two people of the same sex.

HIV/AIDS truly remains a huge problem in the LGBTQ community, especially to the gay men who have receptive sex with untested partner (s) being an easy way to spread the virus, and the stigma following the test and diagnosis may cause a lot of men to avoid getting tested, hence, increasing the possibility of an unintended spread, but it swings.

There is no inherent reason why gay or lesbian couples would be unable to have a stable romantic relationship. This includes the liberty of expression of that choice. Do you think it is legitimate to speak of a class consciousness in connection with homosexuals? You are born attracted one gender or the other, or even both, or even none.

First, there is the question of freedom of sexual choice that must be faced. JOH : Fair enough. Question 4: Can gay people have stable romantic relationships? Sexual behavior is more than that. These questions are fundamentally obscure. On this question I have only an opinion; since it is only an opinion it is without interest.

Methodologically speaking, the rejection by Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well.

As for the political goals of the homosexual movement, two points can be made. JOH : I understand that your own recent work has led you to a study of sexuality as it was experienced in ancient Greece. This is an undeniable fact that dates back to ancient times.

This throws an interesting light on the question of homosexual educators. To what extent do you think the conclusions he draws contribute to a better understanding of the contemporary homosexual experience? In this type of analysis it is important to be aware of the way in which people conceived of their own sexuality.

JOH : Does this mean you think the question is unanswerable, or bogus, or does it simply not interest you? However, where freedom of sexual choice is concerned one has to be absolutely intransigent. Of course, this aspect of their collective consciousness changes over time and varies from place to place.