Interesting post on encoding of gayness in Hugo's Les Miserables

Kes: I note that the gay character discussed is characterized by his aloneness, his lack, which leads to a comparison with the physically disabled and non-normative, and ultimately the statement that such oddities always desire to be other than what they are, namely, "chaste, healthy, firm, upright, hard...his opposite...".
http://thelectern.blogspot.com/2011/05/fragment-0510_10.html
This is one of the main reasons I often use the word "queer," because ideas about non-normativity in fiction and media images are often layered over and/or next to one another in ways which conflate say, physical non-normativity with sexual non-normativity, and both are held up as "the reverse, the obverse, the wrong side."