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homoeroticism

 [ho″mo-ĕ-rot´ĭ-sizm]
sexual feeling directed toward a person of the same sex. adj. adj homoerot´ic.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

ho·mo·sex·u·al·i·ty

(hō'mō-seks'yū-al'i-tē),
Erotic attraction or activity, including sexual congress, between people of the same sex, especially after puberty.
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homoeroticism

Eroticism directed towards people of the same sex.
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The print no longer merely evokes general homoeroticism, but rather pederasty.
Factory floors, schools, markets, and dormitories are all important sites for the production of female homoeroticism in Thailand--yet they do not typically visually register as gay, queer, or LGBT spaces.
I even want to suggest that it provides an interesting subtext for the homoeroticism that lurks below the surface of their interaction, in that Frank sees himself as the active party in the relationship and Laurence is the passive, receptive one.
In the final two chapters, the poet Katherine Philips's feminine homoeroticism re-evaluates "the terms and logics of mid seventeenth-century political thought" in Graham Hammill's view, while in Will Stockton's Lacanian account of Milton's Adam and Eve, their doomed sexual relation, as they experience queer desires beyond the possibilities of pre-lapsarian heterosexual and hierarchical orders, critiques heteronormativity.
In a brief analysis of "The Secret Sharer" in his sixth chapter, Ruppel builds on previous readings of homoeroticism in the story to argue that it reads as a "brief infatuation," effectively paralleling "an illicit homosexual affair," though Conrad does not specify such a physical relationship (71).
Moreover, the intra-cultural approach to homoerotic Islamicate sexualities is also evident in Sahar Amer's comparison between French and Arab medieval texts on female homoeroticism. The same textual interplay is present in Leyla Rouhi's cross-cultural reading of Cervantes' Don Quixote and her attempt to reclaim and accentuate a homoerotic "half-Islamicate, half-Christian" modality that hearkens back to a pre-Western scientia sexualis paradigm when Spain's cultural atmosphere was more accommodating of various minorities' presence.
Holland Day (G&LR, May-June 2009) that, despite her "intimate knowledge of Day's papers and possessions," she "hems and haws at acknowledging Day's sexuality, finally making the unfortunate decision to ignore it almost completely." According to Clark, the book's "discussion of Day's sexuality is dismissed as 'prurient speculation'" and allows only a "perceived homoeroticism" when discussing Day's Arcadian woodland images of male nude youths, many from the immigrant slums of Boston.
The show is a modern take on Oscar Wilde's Gothic fable and features celebrities, drugs, sex, homoeroticism and murder.
She would be a great navy pilot in Top Gun, and her lethal presence as she 'rides someone's tail' would give us a break from all that tiring 80s suppressed homoeroticism.
Grooms rather bravely maps an immediate call to self-love through an articulation of the complicated experience of a gay, mixed-race, globetrotting b-boy-cum-conceptual artist, subverting a patriarchal God-as-father theology through race allegory, feminist homage and overt homoeroticism. The Christian church, dance clubs, mosques and men's bathrooms all serve as interchangeable backdrops for Clay's stories, which are delivered in a pitch-shifting, androgynous baritone that recalls Sarah Vaughan and Grace Jones.
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