Abstract
Two propositions, the one as seemingly outrageous as the other:
(i) There are no bad heterosexuals;
(ii) There are no conservative homosexuals.
Both statements are demonstrably untrue—the first, I would say, even more so than the second—yet both enjoy considerable, if largely unacknowledged, literary, cultural, and political currency. No less an authority than Freud, for instance, implicitly argues the validity of my first proposition:
In my experience anyone who is in any way, whether socially or ethically, abnormal mentally is invariably abnormal also in his sexual life. But many people are abnormal in their sexual life who in