Heteronomy in Arcadia, the mimetic closure to a queer utopic reinvention

Abstract

Following the queer habit of analyzing the past in search for a better understanding our present, this article seeks to understand male supremacy in today’s gay pluriverse through the analysis of past virile homosexual discourses. This article proposes the notion of heteronomy to offer as a critical approach to forms of homosexual sociality which have reproduced and still reproduce to this day different forms of hate speech (misogyny, femmephobia, fatphobia etc.). The analysis focuses on masculinist, misogynist and femmephobic rhetoric which permeates Aradie, the French homophile movement magazine, and draws the consequences of such language in the advocacy for the social acceptance of homosexuality in hostile social contexts. To conclude, despite their role as counter-discourse, these rhetorics reproduce the exclusion and marginalization of the heterosexual matrix within the gay pluriverse. The purpose of this research is to prove the connection between hate speech and the so-called heteronomy in the social reproduction of the former within the homosexual sociality.