Christine D'Aleo

Creating Queer Monsters:
The Scapegoat Mechanism at Work
in the Exclusion of Homosexuals

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Christine identifies three social institutions from which homosexuals are excluded:
Boy Scouts, marriage, adoption. She uses Freud's category of unheimlich
and Beal's term "too muchness" as stereotypes of the monstrous
and demonstrated how they have been used in representations of homosexuals
to make them scapegoats, subject to "stereotypes of persecution" identified by Girard.