ABSTRACT
This interview reveals Foucault’s concerns about the strategic role played by sexual preference within a legal and social framework. In evoking the “grammar” of modern homosexual experience Foucault asserts that the condemnation of gay culture has led to an intensification of the sex act itself to the detriment of amorous courtship. Gayness encourages the elaboration of unforeseen relations which explore the internal possibilities of sexuality, a phenomenon that ultimately threatens the heterosexual population. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted and translated by James O’Higgins. It appeared as pages 1 0—24 of a special issue of Salmagundi, 58-59 (Fall 1982-Winter 1983), on “Homosexuality: Sacrilege, Vision, Politics.”
