Richard Dyer, Gays in Film, Key Quotes

• "we have tended to condemn mages of gayness in the name of aesthetic concepts and values that are highly problematic" 

• "We've tended to demand that gay characters and themes be represented according to certain ideas and ideals about what art is, without seeing that such ideas and ideals are straight ones, not natural or transparent but imbued with a sexual ideology that has anti-gayness as one of its cornerstones"

• He mentions Jack Babuscio's articles in Gay News where he defines gay sensibility as a creative energy reflecting a consciousness different from the mainstream with awareness of human complications that come from social