Sedgwick's Discussion Of Homosexuality

•Arguing for the absolute centrality of sexuality to understandings of modern culture, Sedgwick demonstrates that the homo-hetero distinction at the heart of modern sexual definition is fundamentally incoherent for two reasons.

• On one hand, there is the persistent contradiction inherent in representing homosexuality as the property of a distinct minority population (Sedgwick refers to this as "a minoritizing view") or a sexual desire that potentially marks everyone, including ostensibly heterosexual subjects ("a universalizing view").

•On the other hand, there is the abiding contradiction in thinking about the gendering of homosexual desire in both transitive and separatist terms, where a transitive understanding locates that desire