Dennis D
Department of Criminal Justice, Texas A & M International University, Laredo 78041-1499, USA.
J Homosex. 1997;32(3-4):169-84. doi: 10.1300/J082v32n03_07.
The essay argues that the contemporary resurgence of homophobia and the remedicalization of homosexuals in the wake of AIDS is, in part, an unintended but predictable effect of a quarter century of fractious identity-politics. Prominent gay and lesbian political strategies of the 1970s and 1980s borrowed heavily from increasingly discredited, if once politically correct, discourses that valorized individuals on the basis of membership in governmentally constructed bio-bureaucratic categories. Drawing on the work of prominent gay intellectuals, such as Foucault, Watney, and Richard Rodriguez, and locating their insights within the context of contemporary cultural and political conflicts, the essay argues that gay advocates who essentialize homosexual identity, however benignly, unwittingly participate in constituting the ground for an emergence of a neoeugenic movement at millennium's end. The essay concludes with the observation that escaping the conceptual prison of bio-bureaucratic categories is not a uniquely gay or lesbian task. It is a human task.
本文认为，恐同现象在当代的死灰复燃以及艾滋病出现后同性恋者的重新医学化，部分是长达四分之一世纪的激烈身份政治产生的意外但可预见的结果。20世纪70年代和80年代 prominent 男女同性恋政治策略大量借鉴了那些即便曾经政治上正确但如今越来越不可信的话语，这些话语依据个体在政府构建的生物官僚类别中的成员身份来对其进行褒扬。本文借鉴了福柯、沃特尼和理查德·罗德里格斯等 prominent 同性恋知识分子的作品，并将他们的见解置于当代文化和政治冲突的背景下，认为那些将同性恋身份本质化的同性恋倡导者，无论其动机多么善意，都在无意中为千禧年末新优生运动的出现奠定了基础。本文最后指出，摆脱生物官僚类别这一概念牢笼并非男女同性恋者独有的任务。这是一项人类的任务。
