For the Professor, Tom's loss also represents the professor's forgoing of homoerotic desire and along with it, a life "without delight... without joy, without passionate grief".

The Church could not repress all expressions of homoerotic desire.

A unique combination of homoerotic desire, suspense and dramatic tension.

His teen-age sidekick, Buddy, must go, Harlan says, to avoid the distraction of homoerotic desires.

"He never had any homoerotic desires," a stunned Bob says, "and if he did, he kept them to himself."

A number of critics have found the character of Mercutio to have unacknowledged homoerotic desire for Romeo.

He proposed that the novel contained a "deeply repressed homoerotic desire that periodically surfaces".

The story's power lies in the delirious and oblique account of homoerotic desire.