Sublime

emotional corporeality is moreover a central element to defining black racial authenticity.

This threat is in fact an attempt to counter the danger the men frequenting the park instantiate with their transgression of sexual and identitarian norms.

black people have often been figured as essentially feeling bodies and bodies that in turn hail more feelings to life:

alterity,

Roughgarden’s wonderful study of evolutionary diversity, Evolution’s Rainbow (2004), explains that most biologists observe “nature” through a narrow and biased lens of socionormativity and therefore misinterpret all kinds of biodiversity. And so, although transsexual fish, hermaphroditic hyenas, nonmonoga-

These men bear the weight of public shaming, yet at the same time their shaming exposes a larger public to the reality that these forms of transgressive sex are in fact possible (even if also always threatening).

As with trans people, the most socially acceptable way to be gay is for nothing, save the existence of your same-sex spouse, to betray your queerness.