Within the Bounds of the Hetrosexual Imagination
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Within the Bounds of the Heterosexual Imagination I thought that Serlin’s essay Christine Jorgensen and the Cold War Closet drew some interesting parallels with Middlesex. Interestingly, the essay makes the assertion that Jorgensen was rejected by the general public after it was discovered that she was not a physical “hermaphrodite” who made the choice between […]
Within the Bounds of the Hetrosexual Imagination
Tags: gender, hermaphrodite, heterosexual, homosexual, sex
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Roy Cohn is not a homosexual?
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Once again the definition of the label “homosexual” is questioned and placed on the examining table in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. “Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry, who fucks around with guys.” (Millenium Approaches, 46) This quote is part of a striking dialogue between Roy Cohn, a […]
Roy Cohn is not a homosexual?
Tags: acts, heterosexual, homosexual, identity, labels
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