"The power of their respective practices is derived not from any critical distance that might be maintained between themselves and their subjects, but, on the contrary, from their mutual willingness to be seduced by, even surrender themselves to, the subjects that occupy those worlds."

-Christopher Bedford




"(It is) the structure of men's relations with other men, specifically examining rituals of male bonding and expressions of affection and desire within male-dominated social networks."

-Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on 'homosocial behavior'