Social deception regarding the gay man’s sexuality and relationships
1. What does the green sentence mean? Does it mean "gay men lying to other people that they are not gay"?
2. I know that "draw on" means "to use" but it does not seem to apply in the following context. What do you think it means here?
Context:
The “relations of the gay closet,” as she calls them—silence and/or secrecy, and even the social deception regarding the gay man’s sexuality and relationships, and the threat of stigma and bias that forces the perpetuation of a cycle of secrecy about one’s identity, at great psychic cost—typified homosexual daily life and culture in modern Western society until the watershed event of the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York City’s West Village, after which the gay-rights movement became much more confrontational. Sedgwick draws on key authors who contribute to the debate on the homo/heterosexual definition, including Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Marcel Proust.
Top answer
red apple Does it mean "gay men lying to other people that they are not gay"? It means behaving in society as a heterosexual man would. For instance, getting married to a woman and having children.
- red apple Does it mean "gay men lying to other people that they are not gay"?
- It means behaving in society as a heterosexual man would.
- For instance, getting married to a woman and having children.
- red apple 2.
- I know that "draw on" means "to use" but it does not seem to apply in the following context.
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red appleDoes it mean "gay men lying to other people that they are not gay"?
It means behaving in society as a heterosexual man would. For instance, getting married to a woman and having children.
red apple2. I know that "draw on" means "to use" but it does not seem to apply in the following context. What do you think it means he
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