"This is unfortunate, but it is nonetheless true that we have learned to be desired inside heterosexual norms and gender structures that we can not find natural nor exhaustive of all our possibilities of identification. Since the deconstruction of this imposed identity will not erase the habit of desire, it might be more profitable test resistance from within the identity of desire as we have learned. If it is doubtful that the desire between men or between women, a desire for "the same", it is also true that since we've been trained to desire being imbued with this idea, homosexuality can become model preferred over the same. This model makes clear the limitations but not the inestimable value of similarity relations, or more exactly of homo-relationality. Gay desire holds perhaps an inability revolutionary sociality hétéroïsée - That is to say of course sociality as we know it. The political consequence of the more radical homoïté I propose to explore the gay desire is so fundamental redefinition of sociality that it may require, at least temporarily, to abandon the relationality itself.
This challenging project that we venture into the fourth chapter with Gide, Proust and Genet. Do not understand this literary enterprise as an appendix to the entertaining arguments in the rest of the book, but as an essential contribution. These writers - unlike theorists gays and lesbians current - are attracted by the trends they discover in anticommunautaristes homosexual desire. For them, otherness can be seen as offering a series of relays for a process of extension of self. As far as possible from our own theoretical debates, the immoral, Sodom and Gomorrah and Funeral contribute yet so crucial: they indeed show how the desire for the same can free ourselves from the oppressive psychology which conceives of desire as lack and sociality based on trauma and castration. Rethinking the homoïté could lead us to a devaluation beneficial for the difference - or, more exactly, to design the difference not as a trauma that must be overcome
(design which maintains, among other things, the antagonism between the sexes), but as a supplement to the same harmless. "
Leo Bersani, Homos, rethinking identity, Odile Jacob
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