In intellectual and literary circles, gay people are still never taken *quite* as seriously as straight people. Discuss.
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Yes. I’m just wondering if there’s not always a filter, some patronage or trivialization even (or especially) if unconscious. I think of this particularly in criticism, where questions of “authority” are salient & reveal deep biases about who is perceived to be authoritative.
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To be authoritative you have to be seen as universal and there's an assumption (usually unspoken) that queer people can't be avatars of the universal. It explains the hesitancy of a particular generation (Sontag's generation) to be openly queer.
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