金句也太多了吧 Everyone covers. To cover is to tone down a disfavoed identity to fit into the mainstream. In our increasingly diverse society, all of us are outside the mainstream in some way. Nonetheless, being deemed mainstream is still often a necessity of social life.
Custody? Must be straight to parent? The necessity to pass to children? When the kids’ gender identity is being formed? These are forcing gays to surrender their basic rights of citizenship: the rights of political and advocacy or association. The case law made their children the hostage of the state. What were these individuals flaunting that needed to be penalized so severely? Straights enga...
[Part I Gay] Gay Conversion (ex-gay or gay) lobotomy: needles into the anterior part of the brain to cut ‘the pathway’ Electricity: electroshock, ‘intensities considerably higher than usually employed on human’. Psychoanalytic conversion Many gays voluntarily embraced conversion therapy. (seek ‘cure’, will to kill the gay self) Gay Passing (closeted or out) “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” Dr...
A colleague once told me a story of a house full of books. The house belonged to an intellectual historian who had accumulated a library with tens of thousands of volumes. When he decided to move, a friend of his who was a civil engineer urged care. The house contained so many books, the friend said, that it had sunk and settled around them, becoming dependent on them for structural support. Un...
"person who are ready to admit possession of a stigma... may nonetheless make a great effort to keep the stigma from looming large." He (Erving Goffman) calls this behavior "covering". Goffman distinguishes passing from covering by noting that passing pertains to the visibility of a particular trait, while covering pertains to its obtrusiveness.
His irises were brown, clouding into orange, with brighter flecks around his pupils. Then it became as important not to look as to look, as I feared I would be lost in a rush of bronze motes.
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