The normalization strategy of gay rights is to merge so seamlessly and imperceptibly into mainstream institutions that it seems impossible to imagine it could ever have been any other way; by contrast, queer theory opts for bullying, razzing, and mocking social conventions until it’s hard to imagine them in the same way. So queer theory has always had a potentially broad applicability. If gay rights would say of marriage, “You have it; why shouldn’t we?” (an uninteresting claim, but one that’s hard to argue with), queer theory would say, Married? You’re getting married? Hold on a minute, I need a drink. -Richard Thompson Ford
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:36:44 +0000
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