Foucalt and subjectivity

This is starting to make some sense.
In some cultures people deny that homosexuality exists, and, though they are aware of homosexual practices, they do not define the practioners (or at least one of them) as homosexual. (the other one may be "gay" or "a woman.")Other times it is simply ignored. This refusing to recognize homosexuals means that they have no ability "to be heard and to claim rights." (p. 291). They are not given "subject" status in the culture; therefore, they do not exist with the ability to perform actions. If only the subject can only be spoken by others (discourse production) than they are forever condemned to discursive limbo. However, if a subject has "agency" and can situate himself in the discourse, than he can create his own subjectivity. That is what has happened in the west, culminating in gay pride parades and the like, the ultimate in subjects seizing agency.
Some cultures do this with women, hiding them away from outside viewers, and not even speaking of them outside the home. The women may have the power to subjectize themselves inside the family unit and the home, but not in the outside arenas of politics and the labor market.