![]() Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay.Power Games Inhabit Guibert’s Last Novel.George Cecil Ives: Out Poet, Lover of Bosie.Inside Ukraine: An lgbtq Leader Speaks Out.For the mind, the very attempt at transcendence makes its own prison: exile. Even when the mind revolts from the body’s abuses, it does not escape them. Juridical and social homophobia, physical arrests and confinements, find their parallel in psychological structures. This much-abused body has a mind which is neither a single nor a separate entity but shares its fears with others who are equally persecuted for their sexuality. In the relationship between pleasure and power for Foucault, the homosexual body is a bruised and weary fetish, due to the wringer it has been put through. While reading Foucault’s work, the word incarceration is evocative, palpable, you can smell it: the fleshy confinement, the ripeness. ![]() ![]() Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish and A History of Sexuality, examines regimes of incarceration, played out on specific, arrested bodies but resonant with generalized experience. THE BODIES AND MINDS of homosexual men have historically been subject to both real and psychological prisons. ![]()
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