Being Lyrical. Beyond Identities as We Know Them?

What if being “non-heterosexual” could be experienced in other ways than through the identitarian terms we know of today (homo and bi, trans, non-binary)? What if other sensations than those brought forward by the struggle for legal recognition in relation to medical classification could be attached to sexual identities? What consequences could this have for the LGBT-movement and political alliances?

Historians who study sexuality usually refer to Foucault’s claim that the sexual identities we know today (hetero, homo, and bi) did not exist before 1870’s; before that, same-sex desire was not seen as defining an individual’s identity, it was just an act anyone could (but should not) commit. However, this was perhaps not Foucault’s point.