Abstract
This article argues that the narrative structure of autobiographical narratives about gay and lesbian life typically posits a radical break between ‘closetedness’ and ‘outness’. I contend that this bifurcated structure leads to a monolithic representation of ‘closeted’ lesbian and gay adolescence as predicated merely upon a lack of power, knowledge and freedom. I then suggest that a more nuanced approach to the temporality of individual narratives, analogous to the approach of some recent gay and lesbian historians, would enable us to recognise the positive forms of power, knowledge and freedom that are proper to adolescent homosexuality.
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