“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”
Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History
For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.
“A radical rethinking of what makes for a just world.”
You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.
Is jailing people for their prejudice really going to curtail bigotry and prejudice?
This t-shirt proves that gay marriage supporters aren’t afraid to exploit other struggles in an effort to legitimize themselves as the most marginalized.
We are explicitly being asked to look at their faces very, very closely and make sure they have fulfilled all our cultural expectations.
Even programs like Amy Goodman’s are going along with this gay conservatism around war and DADT and not questioning the contradictions that they, surely, discern.
By placing so much emphasis on the act of revealing…we are implicitly arguing that to be queer is, in effect, to always have to come out.