Erasure of Gay History & How We LOST Our Identity | Pierre d'Alancaisez & Amir Naaman. Today’s world of PrEP, Pride parades, and gay marriage eclipses the wildest dreams of the sexual revolution. While it was formerly deviant to promote gay lifestyles, it is now ‘problematic’ to suggest that not all departures from the norm are in the homosexual’s best interest. Amidst this excess, a new wave of discontent rises among the once-keenest proponents of sexual progress: gay men. What happened in the transition from inversion to homosexuality, gayness, and queerness? Why do some gay men lament the freedoms afforded to them by sexual and social acceptance? Bold and daring, the essays in Inversion reflect on the vicious cycle of debasement, acceptance, sacrifice, and liberation that homosexuality has been stuck in for longer than it wishes to acknowledge ...