It is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very muchlike oneself gay fiction and cinema are often organized around thisassumption. Non... » 

It is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very muchlike oneself gay fiction and cinema are often organized around thisassumption. Nonetheless power differentials are remarkably persistent aswell as sexy. What are the personal and political implications of this insight?Sinfield argues that hierarchies in interpersonal relations are continuous withthe main power differentials of our social and political life gender classage and race therefore it is not surprising that they govern our psychiclives. Recent writing enables an exploration of their positive potentialespecially in fantasy as well as their danger.On Sexuality and Power focuses on the writing of the last thirty yearsrevisiting also Whitman Wilde Mann Forster and Genet and reassessing thevery idea of a gay canon. «