In other words, it’s completely legal to fire someone for any reason in more states than those where it’s legal to fire someone for being gay.
Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History
But marriage, as represented by the giant equal sign, is seen as the silver bullet, despite the fact that gay marriage will help make rich gays and lesbians a lot richer and leave the rest of us behind.
Gay marriage will become a way to make neoliberalism both palatable and more palpable, more an everyday part of our lives.
“We often believe that queerness resists neoliberalism, and it really doesn’t.”
When we focus on who commits such acts, we conveniently forget why they happen in the first place. And then, of course, it allows us to forget a simple fact: no one actually deserves to die a violent and senseless death.
In the push to redefine themselves as “undocumented,” the undocuqueers have essentially used the “illegals” as their bargaining chips.
Edwards would have been metaphorically and literally run out of Chicago if he had been anything but a white, gay man.
But two daddies are not better than none and, for that matter, no one needs to be a parent to be considered worthy of support.
If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.
