The Homo- / Heterosexual Distinction Is an Inherently Anxious and Unstable Structure of Knowledge"

The homosexual and heterosexual distinction is indeed an unstable structure of knowledge. This instability and anxiousness of this reciprocal definition is inherent due to the very nature of sexuality--its invisibility and tendency towards secrecy in the form of the closet. Heterosexuality and homosexuality is inevitably intertwined with each other. One cannot exist without the other. Heterosexuality is dependent on homosexuality, as the marginalized other, in order to establish itself as the norm. Without homosexuality, there would be no need for the term "heterosexuality", as it would be a default, so much of a norm that it need not be mentioned. As Katz aptly put, the paradox of the norm is that it is everywhere yet nowhere. As we continue to grapple with the inconsistence of this binary definition of homo/ heterosexuality, we realize that it is perhaps too limiting a view of human sexuality that does not accurately reflect reality.…