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62 THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF CAMP
15 I use the term indifference to signal my indebtedness to Teresa de Lauretis’s
examination of the difficulty encountered in expressing sexual difference in
representational structures dominated by heterosexual technologies in her essay
“Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation.” See also her argument about
narrative in “Strategies of Coherence.”
16 The parasitic nature of the poetics of “The Disciple” also suggests a link between
the poem and contemporary gay political Camp. Andrew Ross has fortuitously
labeled Camp a “parasitical practice…[that] had become a survivalist way of life
for the counterculture” (151).
17 Wayne Koestenbaum uses this passage as the opening to a brilliant extended
discussion of Freud’s theoretical construction of homosexuality and his ambivalent
tension within his masculine partnerships (17–42). I borrow the term “genocide”
from Louis Crompton’s courageous and pioneering article, “Gay Genocide from
Leviticus to Hitler.”
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