Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Donald Moffett / Strange ways here we come.

"THE HOMOSEXUAL BOODY HAS BEEN A HIGHLY CONTESTED SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION IN MODERN TIMES. FASCIST, MARXIST AND LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC REGIMES HAVE ALL TRIED TO ERASE AND ELIMINATE IT. MEDICAL DISCOURSE TRIED TO CONTAIN IT AS IT WOULD ANY PATHOLOGY. LEGISLATION SIMPLY OUTLAWS IT. HOMOPHOBIA, THE FEAR OF THE HOMOSEXUAL BODY, IS DEEPLY EMBEDDED IN THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL CONVENTIONS OF THE WEST AND MARKS ONE OF THOSE TERRIBLE PRECIPICES WHERE ONE CAN VIEW THE RIVER OF BARBARISM THAT HAS ANIMATED SO MUCHOF OUR CENTURY. FULLY ENFRANCHISED IN WOEFULLY FEW COUNTRIES (CANADA IS NOT ONE), GAY MEN AND LESBIAN WOMEN FACE THE SAME POLITICAL STRUGGLE AS FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES, JEWS, PEOPLE OF COLOUR, WOMEN; ANY GROUP THE PATRIARCHY REGARDS AS LESS THROUGH DIFFERENCE. IT ISN'T JUST A MATTER OF ENSHRINING RIGHTS IN THE GENERAL CHARTER, ALTHOUGH A LEGAL GUARANTEE AGAINST DISCRIMINATION WILL BE A GREAT VICTORY WHEN IT COMES. WHAT IS REQUIRED IS A MASSIVE DECONSTRUCTION OF A DAUNTING MYRIAD OF DETAILS OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT - AN ASSAULT ON BOTH REPRESENTATION AND INVISIBILITY. THE EXPERIENCE OF FEMINISTS, FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE, AND NORTH AMERICANS OF AFRICAN OR ASIAN DESCENT IN THIS SPHERE HAS BEEN REMARKABLE IN DEMONSTRATING THE PERVASIVENESS OF A SUBORDINATING NET OF IMAGE AND LANGUAGE THAT THROUGH NEGATIVE DEFINITIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS CONTINUE THE REGIME OF DISEMPOWERMENT. IN THE END IT IS THE HOMOSEXUAL BODY, WHICH IS THE MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND CONTAINMENT, WHICH MUST BE REIMAGINED AND DEFINED NOT BY THOSE WHO WISH TO LIQUIDATE GAYS BUT BY GAY PEOPLE THEMSELVES. EVERY "TEXT" OF THE MASTER NARRATIVE HAS TO BE REREAD BY THE HOMOSEXUAL READER SO THAT THE " UNCONSCIOUS" OPERATION WHICH SERVES TO CONSTRUCT, THEN SILENCE, THE HOMOSEXUAL BODY IS BROUGHT TO CONSCIOUS ACCOUNT. THIS READING WILL BE MET WITH A GREAT DEAL OF RESISTANCE." from Scott Watson's essay