“制造同性恋”——话语、身份建构与现代性的视角

同性恋身份是现代性的产物。作为19世纪的发明，“同性恋”这一标签重构了同性爱欲者并使之成为具有共享身份与特性的族群。同性恋的历史书写、话语争夺、性主体意识与现代性等要素共同参与了“制造同性恋”的进程。大体而言，同性恋身份的建构过程可以分为历史寻根、经验阐释与族群建构三个阶段，在不同的社会与文化中可以区分出年龄-结构化、跨性别、职业化以及平等主义等不同的同性恋类型。现代性为同性恋亚文化的创造与发展提供了社会空间，现代同性恋世界呈现出一系列独特的结构性特征。

From the Perspectives of Discourse,Identity Construction and Modernity

Gay identity is the product of modernity.As an invention of the nineteenth-century,the label of “homosexual” reconstructs same-sexual desirers,forming an identity-sharing minority.Homosexual-history writing,discourse argument,sexual subject consciousness and modernity all contribute to the process of “making homosexual”.Basically,this process can be identified as three phrases:searching for historical roots,experience interpretation and ethnic construction,and different societies and cultures would distinguish diverse homosexual types,such as age-structured,transgender,egalitarian and inversion.Modernity provides the opportunity for creating and developing gay sub-culture,modern gay world presents series of particular structural features.