Most spaces can be divided into public and private domains,
and when homosexuality is publicly prohibited, it excludes a certain number of
people from the public space, condemning them to conceal. Treating “the
‘unnatural’ as a specific dimension in the field of sexuality. This kind of
activity assumed an autonomy with regard to the other condemned forms” (39,
Michel Foucault), which I understand as condemning non-heteronormative
behaviours and placing them in a separate space. So, if queerness is an outcast
of normality, then queer people are outcasts from society. Homophobic attitudes
and cultural reinforcements make it difficult to for queer to exist publicly, especially
when a moral panic ensues such as the AIDS crisis, which two upcoming films
focus on. Being present in or entering the public space is a challenge for queer
individuals as they are reinforced that they don’t belong in the sphere of normality,
which in reality is more of a spectrum. Instead queer people are expected to simply
exist elsewhere, but I’m unsure where that space might be?
