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[–]JulienMayfair 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh brother . . . I guess whoever this is counts on us older gays not having a memory.

Back in the 1990s, when we were doing lots of pioneering work in the history of same-sex attraction, that was what we called it: "same-sex attraction." The reason we used that term instead of 'gay' or 'homosexual' was to try to be careful about not loading our language with a lot of 20th C. meanings associated with those words.

'Same-sex attracted' was considered the most neutral term for discussing the history of this mode of desire so that we could discuss same-sex desire within the logic of the culture in which it was experienced or acted on.

Hell, it was Foucault himself who prompted us to historicize discussions of sex.