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What am I doing here? I have come to terrorize you! I am a monster, you say? No! I am the people! I am an exception? No! I am the rule; you are the exception! You are the chimera; I am the reality!

Monique Wittig’s novel The Lesbian Body

was how I discovered Magnus Hirschfeld’s Sappho and Socrates, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Eine Frau zu sehen [To See a Woman], the ‘Rapport contre la normalité’ [‘Report against Normality’] published by the Front d’Action Révolutionnaire Gay, Guy Hocquenghem’s Homosexual Desire, Joanna Russ’s The Fe