.../practice, friendship/homosexuality), this essay attempts to articulate an affirmative content for celibacy. Reading Marianne Moore's last single volume of original work, Tell Me, Tell Me (1966), and Elizabeth Bishop's memoir of Moore, “Efforts of Affection” (1979), I elaborate a definition of celibate...

... to this triadic relationship although it was purely platonic. Some missionaries imagined a celibate future with sex workers, which Luna characterizes as a queer departure, “because [missionaries] imagined futures of living with and loving sex workers instead of future husbands” (151). Nonetheless, Luna does...

.... Complex and often contradictory identifications as celibate are, there- fore, as Kahan shows in discussions of Henry James, Marianne Moore, Auden, and Andy Warhol, at the heart of literary and aesthetic culture. This association of celibacy with the understanding of art or philosophy...

... more, Bowers herself seems conflicted over whether the homoerotic dimension of the celebrant’s experience during the Eucharist is an entirely regrettable thing. For example, Bowers reacts in an uncharacteristic way to the case of a celibate priest who, to his distress, always gets...

... the masculinity of a celibate clergy; the relationship between grammatical and social passivity and objectification in sexual discourse; and the performative nature of the medieval understanding of gender and the issues of “passing” that arise from it. These questions are a heavy burden for John/Eleanor...

... style: You can explore the nature of your desire through either sex or gender. How about a gender identity that’s celibate, or that has sex with itself? Or sex with some deity? Have you explored all the possibilities? So . . . how would you name...

... sensuality. Her portrait of the passionately celibate Miss Brown was almost universally derided, so Lee largely ceased to write fiction about contemporary life. Instead, she focused on her beloved Italy, writing stories and essays about places, people, and artworks. She turned to a different...

... and regional culture. On one hand, our interlocutors would differentiate themselves from hijras, saying that 42 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES hijras were from the north and that hijras were celibate ritual performers unlike themselves, who were more modern. On the other, they explained...

... — a “monastic, celibate attestation of the detachment of ‘matter’ and ‘nature’ which guarantees integrity, identity, unity” (68) — as pure mediation, finding its counterpart in the regime that installs money as the general equivalent and renders exchange-­value autonomous through...

... of diverse gender identities is framed through regional differences in language and religious and ritualistic practices. Aravanis, located primarily in southern India, trace their lineage to Lord Aravan, son of Arjun, a hero in the text Mahabharata. Jogappas in Karnataka marry the goddess, remain celibate...

..., who continues to appear, in popular as well as scholarly imagination, in the guise of a prickly, priggish, elementally hypocritical scold.7 If only as a corrective to these imagin- ings of Thoreau the confounded celibate, it makes real critical sense to insist...

... The Kama- sutra, also a sacred text, is aware of these prohibitions yet uninhibitedly describes various types of ayoni sex between men and between men and women. In the sacred stories, gods and heroes are often conceived through non- vaginal sex. Celibate sages, when stirred by desire...

..., such as a shift away from conversion and toward loosening restrictions on members of the Order openly embracing (celibate) queer identities.10 Such shifts may, in the end, be comparable to the tectonic break from Ptolemaic cosmology; after all, family and gender relations are supposed to be the epicenter...

... disputes, as though it were value-free; reproduces the same foundationalist logic that has historically been used against gays;25ignores other sexual minorities (celibates, shoe fetishists, and strappers-on, for example), leaving them in the marginal- ized dust until someone proves that they, too...

... places between men did not cease but were consciously pursued in the midst of greatly increased danger. Men who might have quite sensibly cho- 366 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES sen to stay at home and remain safe, celibate, and atomized instead maintained a subculture...

... for the rst time (Anonymous 1973b), living celibate or secret lives into old age (Anonymous n.d.a), or dealing with a homophobic college roommate (Anony- mous 1974). Some letters come from situations with limited access to information: a federally incarcerated gay man...

... portrayals. The narrative of her life was devoid of any mention of sexuality besides these defensive comments. Indeed, it appears that courtship and romance have been of minimal impor- tance in her life, and that for a good deal of her life she has been celibate. Speaking implicitly of this, she...

... of propensity sets up the double bind that judges cinched whenever they asked plaintiffs why they sought protection only for celibate homosexuals or when, in a particularly devastating move quoted in the introduction to this paper, the D.C. Circuit noted that Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund...