Familiar code for “gay”
Posted on | January 7, 2005 |
Do people really still think that claiming bisexuality is a safe way to stay ‘quasi-closeted’? Patrick More argues that Sontag’s contribution as an intellectual is all the more important because of her sexuality. So why can’t he accept her own description of it?
It continues to amaze me how hard it is to live free from pre-established and politically containable categories.
Category: Politics
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2 Responses to “Familiar code for “gay””
January 7th, 2005 @ 12:19 pm
Only slightly sorry to Josh for stealing this:
maybe SS should have taken a leaf out of Germaine Greer’s book, discussing her upcoming stint on celebrity BB (http://terraismynation.blogspot.com/2005/01/greer-in-big-brother-january-07-2005.html):
“It’s going to be embarrassing if I get drunk or if I get off with anyone.”
When asked by presenter Davina McCall what sort of person she likes to “get off” with, she declared: “I’ve had all kinds of peculiar organisms swim into my orbit.”
Now that’s what I call code. Love it.
January 7th, 2005 @ 12:20 pm
oops - remove the bracket and colon off the end of the URL to follow the link