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Groomer Schools 2: Queer Futurity and the Sexual Abuse of Your Children

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What Happened to Me to Make Me Gay?

Gay kids grow up thinking that they're supposed to be straight, realize eventually that they don't have to be straight. The adult then reconstructs their childhood to conform with the contemporary understanding of what it must have felt like to have had a queer childhood. Stockton cites freud's three essays on the theory ofexal from 19 o five to show how his seminal text linked the appearance of adult homosexuality and childhood sexuality.

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