De Cecco J P
J Homosex. 1981 Summer;6(4):51-67. doi: 10.1300/j082v06n04_04.
This essay first examines the current discourse on homosexuality and shows how a "gay identity" has been forged within the doctrines and rituals of the gay liberation movement. This substantiation of the gay person is then linked to "the homosexual," created by medicine in the nineteenth century as one piece in a vast mosaic of sexual "perversions." Finally, it is argued that to depict sexuality as fixed, bifurcated states of sexual orientation, and to ignore the fact that erotic preference is labile and interpenetrated by elements of physicality, emotion, and fantasy, is to impede and even to misdirect research.
本文首先审视了当前关于同性恋的论述，并展示了“同性恋身份”是如何在同性恋解放运动的教义和仪式中形成的。这种对同性恋者的证实随后与“同性恋者”联系起来，后者是医学在19世纪创造的，是庞大的性“变态”拼图中的一部分。最后，本文认为，将性取向描绘为固定的、二分的状态，而忽略色情偏好是不稳定的，且受到身体、情感和幻想等因素相互渗透这一事实，会阻碍甚至误导研究。
