Status Updates From American Homo: Community an...

"Political action eventually provokes internal conflict or splits movements along the most significant social fault lines of a historical period—such as class, religion, race, or generation." pg 68

"Historical and anthropological research has shown that homosexual persons (i.e., people who occupy a social position or role as homosexuals) do not exist in many societies, whereas homosexual behavior occurs in virtually every society." (pg 37)

Difference in behavior vs identity

[in Escoffier's reading of Barthes, Homosexuality and the Sociological Imagination]

. . . Homosexual readers emancipation themselves by coding over the guilty knowledge they acquired by growing up in a homophobic society. By reading, they were able to discover practical knowledge of homosexuals who live communally and can transform this knowledge for their own use.

Camp rested on the assumption that gender behavior is a role, something that can be adopted, changed, or dropped. It was a style of humor that allowed homosexuals to react to their situation with wry humor rather than despair.