The History of Sexual Inversion

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In the late 19th century, what made someone gay was not that you are attracted to other men. It's that you are an effeminate type of man who is sexually available to normal men. So one of the ways people understand homosexuality or gay identity is through the inversion of gender because it's a gender de appearance that signifies that difference.

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