Inversion
Subtitle: Gay Life After the Homosexual
By: Edited by Amir Naaman and Pierre d'Alancaisez
Publisher: Verdurin
Published: 2025
Place of publication: London, UK
Format: ebook
ISBN-13: 9781068450716
Copyright date: 2025
First sentence: GAY MEN, the former foot soldiers of sexual
and social liberation, today find themselves par-
alyzed by their hard-won freedoms. The endless
choice offered to them by, at one end, hookup
apps and, at the other, the drive for total cul-
tural representation, has left them numb and
unable to decide what they actually want. The
choices available to them today are lackluster.
The once celebrated homosexual artist, for ex-
ample
—
clandestine like Proust, witty like Wil-
de, or transgressive like Genet
—
has given way
to the gay ‘creative’ marketing manager, fashion
stylist, or, at best, ‘content creator,’ for whom
gayness is indicative of aesthetic conformism
and middling taste. In social hierarchies, the once
powerful homosexual outsider has traded his
influence for respectability through institutions
like gay marriage, just as marriage ceased to mean
much at all. Since the passing of the AIDS crisis,
the gay man has even lost his status as a special
kind of nature’s victim, settling for a diet of pills
and injections designed to make gay sex the same
as any other.