Stages of Sexuality argues that the lived spatial experiences of
Generation X gay men are characterized by a profound sense of
homelessness (a psychic/material condition distinguished by social
dissociation, restricted social mobility, and invisibility to the
public gaze). In each of the four chapters of this study, Diehl
explores the cultural/sexual/generational politics of a single site
at which young gay male identities are produced/performed to gain
an extended understanding of how spatial practices can facilitate a
more equitable and just distribution of the social order and reveal
less restrictive alternatives for how young gay men inhabit that
order. At the heart of the study is a search for home, a search
which Diehl argues is tempered by the knowledge that home is both
kaleidoscopic and fictive-not the place we come from but the places
to which we endlessly return. Ultimately the author suggests that
while young gay men are always and only "halfway home," they
continue to press their bodies against social space both with cause
and with determination because those actions matter to both
personal and political survival.
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