...interpreted) of "sodomy" as a category strictly of forbidden acts to "homosexuality" as a category of persons: "The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood. . . . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species."8 This could...

...as Kraft-Ebing, Hirshfield, Bloch and others (Foucault, 1978). The 19* century homosexual became the personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition to being the type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious...

...their perpetrator was nothing more than the juridical sobject of them. The nineteemh-cemury homosesual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in additinn to being a type of llfe, allfeform,andamnrphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibiv...

...OF HOMOSEXUALITIES In the now famous passage from the History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault states, As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology ____ The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. (1980, 43) According...

...psychological state possessed by a distinct type of person. In a memorable and much-quoted passage, he stated: As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood . . . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.152 The conceptual...

...about it all the time; it became a principal mode of social regulation. As part of this process, the "homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology. . . . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species."25 The difference...

...the person whose forbidden sexual acts made him or her "a temporary aberration," the homosexual is "a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology." Perhaps most crucially, homosexual identity is constituted "less by a type of sexual relations than...

...necessarily considered distinct types of persons. That changed in the nineteenth century when "the homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history,...childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a life form — The homosexual was now a species."63 Homosexuals and other "deviants" were the first groups to...

...and the homosexual as expressions of the consciousness of two different periods.49 In earlier times, "sodomy was a category of forbidden acts; their perpetrator...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology." What in Caravaggio's day was "a habitual sin" or a "temporary aberration" turned into "a singular nature...

...oft-quoted passage from the History of Sexuality in which Foucault summarizes this historical transition: As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology. . . . Nothing that went into his total composition was unaffected by his sexuality. It was everywhere...