Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-189) and index.
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Introduction -- The rhetorical secret -- The essential and the ethnic -- Semen and subjectivity -- Experiencing the erotic -- Coming out as contagious discourse -- Conclusion: The conditions of speaking about homosexuality.
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"In Part One of this book, Davin Allen Grindstaff establishes his notion of the "rhetorical secret" central to constructions of gay male identity: the practice of sexual identity as a secret, its promise of a coherent sexual self, and the perpetuation of secrecy as a product and strategy of heteronormative discourse. In Part Two, Grindstaff examines major issues related to contemporary conceptions of gay male identity."--Jacket.
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