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Eileen Myles on Pathetic Literature

Apology

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Gayness and Queerness

Is queerness pathetic? I have to see which I mean it's so in a way in a way, no. But surely queer behavior is pathetic, I think. And it gayness is more pathetic just as a even as an idea. What's the difference? Well, for gay to get to where it is, you know, to go from like the gay 90s to the gay liberation movement of the 70s, the word really traveled.

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