J. Neil C. Garcia

As we know, homophobia is the socially endorsed, prejudiced hatred and persecution of gays and lesbians (homosexual women), because of their same-sexual orientation.

Homophobia may be institutional or personal: the first is borne out by the hypocritical and untenable belief that sexual behavior should always be yoked onto procreation, which in turn assures the existence of the conjugal family; the second is largely the product of ignorance of and noncontact with “avowed homosexuals.”1 Obviously, the institutional fear of “purely pleasurable” or

“unprocreative” sexuality privileges heterosexual unions at the same time that it reduces the bodies of women to their reproductive capacity; thus homophobia

In other words, just because gays have been able to textualize themselves, it does not necessarily mean such textualizations are ultimately “good” for them. The theoretical concern over the violent dynamics of subversion and containment has been expressed by various oppositional intellectuals all over the world, and the implications of this so-called

“containment theory” are intriguingly relevant to this project, too; hence, they can only deserve some discussion of their own.