Desire…..

    these are random thoughts from writers and I’m sure that I am simplifying ideas all too much….so please respond and disagree…. or help clarify!!

Guy Hocquenghem (1993) writes that there is no such thing as homosexual desire….just desire. Desire is not divided into homosexuality and heterosexuality:

    “Properly speaking, desire is no more homosexual than heterosexual. Desire emerges in a multiple form, whose components are only separable a posteriori, according to how we manipulate it. Just like heterosexual desire, homosexual desire is an arbitrary cut made in an uninterrupted, polyvocal flow”.

Instead he thinks we are all repressed products of a phallocentric ideological system – victims of an order that dominates, sublimates, desecrates individual rights to our own bodies (in L. Schehr, 1996, Defense and Illustration of Gay Liberation)

Robert Philen (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/srb/5-3edit.html) writes that there is no inherent tie to bind normative heterosexual construction to heterosexuals and no queer construction to queers. Instead – to experience queer is to self-construct the relation of becoming self to the constructed world and the constructed time instead of just accepting what’s expected or imposed.

So - there must be a defense of homosexuality as it is along with a defense against it as it is?