But, in the vicinity ot the closet, even what counts as a speech act is
problematized on a perfectly routine basis. As Foucault says: "there is no
binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not
say; we must try to determine the different ways of not sa/n g such
things. . . . There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral
part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses."3
"Closetedness" itself is a performance initiated as such by the speech act of a
silence
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