I Am the Very Model of the Modern Homosexual; or, Queer Foucauldians Say the Darnedest Things!

Almost any book you read about homosexuality nowadays will pause at some point to retell the Creation Myth of the Homosexual, from the Gospel According to Saint Foucault. (Which, like the Christian Bible, most who refer to it haven’t read. But I digress, and not for the last time.)This myth tells how the Modern Homosexual sprang fully grown (or erupted, like a zit?) from the foreheads of 19th