“If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?”

Source: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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American philosopher and gender theorist 1956

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