Sublime

Explicitly drawing on black traditions of family, he imagined a partnership, extended kin networks, friendships, and gay social worlds as constituting something more vital.

Gay, who had lived a good life by letting the sheriff beat him at checkers, suddenly grew cocky and never lost another game. He lost his privileges that way but he felt a whole man again.

Hookup sites and cruising apps reduce social worlds of public sex to bad faith erotic free markets;

Promiscuity: members of both sexes have multiple partners (in humans this is sometimes called polyamory)

gay predators in particular are figured as especially adept at derailing an otherwise good boy off the proper developmental track toward heterosexuality; and technology can abet this sexual ambivalence.

Anthony Kennedy’s antihomosexual judicial decisions seemed endless.

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,