Jul 29, 2018
"Bitching, in other words, was a form of protopolitics. It channeled the bitter frustrations of homosexuals' lives into a pronounced conversational mannerism that marked an important symbolic stage in the gay man's effort to translate his otherwise impotent rage into practical measures for social reform"
Daniel Harris
Reference: (1999), The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, Random House, 1st Ed. p. 16
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