I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

This is so interesting, and is making me think of the section in Sedgwick's introduction to Epistemology of the Closet (which is at the office, so I can't find the exact quote right now) in which she discusses how odd it is that, of all the variables that go into sexual preferences and sexual object choices, sex of partner is THE variable designated by the term "sexual orientation"; her argument -- and Ward's analysis certainly points in this direction as well -- is that that designation flattens out a much wider range of social, political, and emotional affiliations and investments.