adrian jack’s Reviews > The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire > Status Update

"Gay culture has perfected the art of mimicking a diva--of pretending, inside, to be divine--to help the stigmatized self imagine it is received, believed, and adored" well okay

I have been thinking about the statement "The discarded, reviled, queer body: find it in sound." for HOURS. I'm getting hit upside the head by this book.

"Opera has always suited those who have failed at love. I entered sexuality assuming that I would fail at it and that it had failed me, that I, by virtue of my lust for men, was where sexuality broke down, where the system stopped working, where a mistake materialized." oh so we're in for it in for it okay