Homosexual IDENTITIES are a modern phenomenon related to our current social constellation: the modern distance from Nature, the breaking up of natural communities and traditions, capitalism and the rise of isolated ‘human resources’, relocating to developing urban centers… Such things and others created the breeding ground from which the modern homosexual emerged in society. The birth of the modern homosexual involved a very significant revolution of social perceptions, in the famous words of Michel Foucault:

“Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul.
The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. “



Indeed, formerly considered a behaviour, an act, however sinful and wicked, homosexuality now became defining of identity. Similarly to the way a witch, a schizophrenic, a sociopath or a terrorist became at some point in history the epitome of alterity, and of what you really didn’t want to be, so the phenomenon of THE homosexual was birthed in the late 19th century, as if the naming of this shocking creature had been an act of creation…