been expressed has varied enormously to such an extent, to say that someone living in eight century byzantium thought of himself as a gay man is idiotic. no historian would disagree with that. foucault's brilliance was to understand exactly that and to try to free us from these constructs he thought are actually in prison in us. all that mattered in the end was feelings and desires. heterosexuality and homosexuality dissolve into just a variety of acts. you can see also the causes and within foucault, because catholicism is all about the sexual act and understanding that. so he wants to reduce everything to that as well and claim that has any sustaining more permanent meeting. most students in today's ivy league will be told that they are clear. to be gay and lesbian is to be in permanent constructionist revolt against any kind category whatsoever. it is a prominent rebel [inaudible] and human freedom. this is what we call queer liberation. in which we study texts and deconstructs them and steady words and deconstructs them, and look our lives and the construct them. -- d. construct them. the