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Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is. Andrew Sullivan

is natural and pervasive. After all, a line can be straight, or a street, the human heart is curved like a road through mountains.

What is straight' A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

began to speak on its own behalf in a reverse discourse, demanding its 'naturality' in the very vocabulary by which medicine had disqualified it.

Recast in definition form from: “… "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf …”

is historically new. It did not exist until the 19th century, before which sexual relations with boys or men were not invested with a subjectivity or regarded as deviant or perverse.

Among Foucault’s most influential propositions was the argument put forward in the first volume of The History of Sexuality that homosexuality did not exist until the 19th century. But surely the Greeks practised homosexuality? Not exactly, Foucault would reply. Certainly, men had sexual relations with boys or men, just as they have done in many other cultures. But they were not in consequence classified as homosexuals, invested with a subjectivity that was seen as the origin of their sexual practices, and regarded as deviant or perverse. The Greeks did not consider themselves in any way defined by their sexual habits.

 appeared on the historical stage as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration... the homosexual was now a species.

Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration... the homosexual was now a species. Michel Foucault

is a discourse created in psychiatry in the 19th century along with a 'reverse' discourse which enabled homosexuality to began to speak on its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or 'naturality' be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.

The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and 'psychic hermaphroditism' made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of 'perversity'... but it also made possible the formation of a 'reverse' discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or 'naturality' be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified. Michel Foucault

Alan Turing

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