Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual. Edited by Amir Naaman and Pierre d’Alancaisez (Verdurin, 2025)
I should start by saying that this book comes with a huge warning: the themes are ‘adult’ and the language is unrestrained. It has a certain significance for the current cultural moment, nevertheless, and the question it poses could be expressed like this: what happens to a minority community that defines itself in terms of breaking the rules of the majority, when the majority gives up on the rules? In order to practise ‘inversion’, there needs to be something to invert. In order to be upside-down, there has to be an established idea of what is up and what is down. If people begin to say that, really, there is no ‘up’ and ‘down’, your project becomes impossible. The editors complain:
