‘Rome is Gay’
…y lived before the Freudian revolution, you see. So they didn’t think of sexuality, just sex. And they presumably had not yet laded upon one of the singular and definitive borders of the twentieth century: the boundary that defines one’s “sexual identity” strictly in terms of the gender of one’s sexual object choice. It’s an awfully ugly way of putting such a passionate and personal matter, but once you put it that way, you can see how arbitrary a…
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