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114 Revue sexologique / Sexological Review<br />

réintroduit dans le groupe homosexuel un <strong>en</strong>semble de t<strong>en</strong>sions qui<br />

remett<strong>en</strong>t <strong>en</strong> question les acquis des luttes m<strong>en</strong>ées pour éliminer ou<br />

réduire <strong>la</strong> discrimination homophobe, ce qui affecte le bi<strong>en</strong>-être<br />

psychologique des gays et leur visibilité sociale:<br />

"My fri<strong>en</strong>ds didn't grow up having sex in bathrooms with strangers. We<br />

wanted to take our boyfri<strong>en</strong>ds home for Sunday dinner with the family.<br />

It's differ<strong>en</strong>t now. Because of AIDS, because of other things too, [...]<br />

differ<strong>en</strong>t attitudes." (Champagne, 1988, p. 102)<br />

"1 think ev<strong>en</strong> if 1 did have my health back l'd be very disori<strong>en</strong>ted," he<br />

began. "Because the gay world seems to have gone in a very differ<strong>en</strong>t<br />

direction. l'm like the <strong>la</strong>st remaining guest at a party; everyone has gone<br />

home but l'm not ready to. 'Last caU.' It's fear. 1 wasn't prepared for the<br />

conservative eighties. My fri<strong>en</strong>ds aU belonged to a differ<strong>en</strong>t period."<br />

(Redon, 1988, p. 103)<br />

Cette autodépréciation peut aller jusqu'à faire attribuer l'origine de<br />

l'infection à des structures psychologiques particulières aux<br />

homosexuels, comme le narcissisme:<br />

[ . ..] Kirkegaard said people who are infinitely interested in themselves are<br />

drawn to sickness. And ar<strong>en</strong>'t gay m<strong>en</strong> infinitely interested in<br />

themselves, anyway? And isn't AIDS the perfect narcissistic illnèss-a<br />

need to indulge oneself? (Redon, 1988, p. 34)<br />

Les homosexuels, les plus jeunes <strong>en</strong> particulier, sont de nouveau<br />

soumis aux aléas d'une id<strong>en</strong>tité qui ne semble pas pouvoir se libérer<br />

d'une fatalité récurr<strong>en</strong>te et incontournable que semble suggérer<br />

l'épidémie. Celle-ci réintroduit dans l'exist<strong>en</strong>ce homosexuelle un<br />

<strong>en</strong>semble de contraintes que les luttes sociopolitiques et personnelles<br />

avai<strong>en</strong>t amoindries. Le pessimisme face au futur se conjugue à<br />

l'évaluation des acquis et aux combats ultérieurs à m<strong>en</strong>er. Le retour à<br />

des re<strong>la</strong>tions interpersonnelles problématiques ainsi que les<br />

s<strong>en</strong>tim<strong>en</strong>ts de peur et de solitude att<strong>en</strong>d<strong>en</strong>t ceux qui rev<strong>en</strong>diqu<strong>en</strong>t<br />

cette ori<strong>en</strong>tation sexuelle:<br />

Gay liberation was such a relief. It meant we did'nt have to be lonely<br />

anymore. But now AIDS has spoiled the dreams of a future with easy<br />

re<strong>la</strong>tionships. [...] We've aU be<strong>en</strong> trying to create a world that the next<br />

g<strong>en</strong>eration of gay kids could grow up in without feeling the terror and the<br />

loneliness, now we've got to create a world they can grow up into<br />

without disease. Oohnson, 1987, p. 42-43)<br />

Dans cette perspective, le sida devi<strong>en</strong>t un moy<strong>en</strong> de r<strong>en</strong>forcer <strong>la</strong><br />

consci<strong>en</strong>ce id<strong>en</strong>titaire homosexuelle:

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