Sublime

both its public manifestations – which might be called ‘roles’ or identity categories

The real effects include further deepening the narrative grooves

learning is a two-way street and you cannot teach without a dialogic relation to the learner.

very survival of the universe, the benign forgetting of the dude variety

ineptitude

Slash throws conventional notions of masculinity into crisis by removing the barriers blocking the realization of homosocial desire;

slash explores the possibility of existing outside of those categories, of combining elements of masculinity and femininity into a satisfactorily whole yet constantly fluid identity.

Before gays could “come out,” they had to be “ ‘connected to

No one before Harry Hay had articulated those words—that homosexuals were “an oppressed cultural minority.”