""All this, however, presupposes codes or axioms which do not result by chance, but which do not have an intrinsic rationality either. It's just like theology: everything about it is quite rational if you accept sin, the immaculate conception, and the incarnation. Reason is always a region carved out"
"Another Hocquenghem, on a different level of the spiral, denounces homosexuality as a word. Homosexuality as nominalism. And in fact there is no power in words, only words in the service of power: language is not information or communication, but prescription, order, and command. You will be on the "
"Hocquenghem's beautiful text on the motorcycle: the motorcycle is another sex. Perhaps the homosexual does not stay with the same sex, but discovers innumerable sexes."
"Far from closing itself in on the identity of a sex, this homosexuality opens itself up to a loss of identity, to the "system actualizing non-exclusive connections of polyvocal desire." We see how the tone has changed at this precise point on the spiral: the homosexual is no longer demanding to be r"