"The American ideal of sexuality appears to be……" — James A. Baldwin

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American… - James A. Baldwin

"The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood"

— James A. Baldwin

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