Effeminacy and Passive sex define the modern homosexual identity as well

Excerpts from the book: Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig

By Judith Ann Peraino, Published by University of California Press, 2006

page 187

"It is the passive partner and his effeminacy that defines--from the perspective of the heterosxual status quo--the identity of the homosexual community as a whole. It can be argued, then, that the core of the male homosexual identity is inextricable from "femaleness" due to the gendering of sex roles."