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“To become straight, you have to transform your cock into a phallus, that well-washed instrument of power The asshole can remain dirty, but you've got to sew it up, forget the half of the penis that joins it, favor external part and confine orgasm to that part”
― Diary of an Innocent
― Diary of an Innocent

“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is not reducible to maieutics; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. In its non-violent transitivity the very epiphany of the face is produced.”
― Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
― Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority

“The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and some gay kids may not turn into gay adults.”
― Epistemology of the Closet
― Epistemology of the Closet

“I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with everything that burdens love or, i could say it better, responsibility is actually love, as Pascal said: 'without concupiscence' [without lust]... love exists without worrying being loved.”
― Of God Who Comes to Mind
― Of God Who Comes to Mind
“Not many boys like boys; but they like being a boy, showing it, being it together" (22)
(rbt: where does this come from? this being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? who teaches it? how? when?)”
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(rbt: where does this come from? this being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? who teaches it? how? when?)”
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A reading of David's new text, How to Be Gay, which evolved out of a course of the same title and a controversy made by the Right. We need not read in ...more

This group will engage with texts (books, papers, and essays) on queer theory; up to and including queer art,art history, visual culture, film studies ...more

This reading group is focused on lgbt and queer auto/biography (either autobiography or biography), even if the auto/biography may be slightly fiction ...more

A group open to all; the group will focus on "queer" theory and culture books (for example, Logic of the Lure, Queer Art of Failure, Cruising Utopia, ...more

A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and supporters interested in fun and stimulating conversation about books, movies, art, ...more
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