So many well-intentioned heterosexuals want the queer world to be filled with docile homosexuals, culturally sophisticated gays and socially conscious lesbians whose sexuality refuses to threaten the norm. These friendly straights want the LGBTQ community to sit happily in church, praise the hetero-Judaeo/Christian God, commit to one partner, and die while murdering brown people to protect the United States and Western Civilization stripped of queer desires and gender confusion. So many people want the queer world to be a white world filled with white Boy Scouts. They want to police our desire and make sure we conform to their expectations of how good homosexuals behave.
Many gay people take on this sexuality and gender policing in order to protect their affiliations with the heterosexual world. They get angry when people don't conform to "straight acting" clean gender performance standards.
All people who use identity, language, and law to police desire and expressions of gender and sexuality are involved in a neo-fascist movement designed to regulate sexuality and ensure that the body continues to be a tool of capitalism--a productive organ breeding workers for the system. All who mobilize so-called "Pride" to celebrate capitalism and justify the state's relationship to queer people are complicit in the destruction of liberated sexuality.
Queer liberation cannot exist alongside any government, religion, or identity formation that relies on policing behavior, desire, and the granting of so-called "rights." Queer liberation must occur simultaneously with all forms of social and ecological struggle against the state and the machines of industry. Queer liberation demands the abolition of standards of normalcy and refuses the tyranny of Average Joe/Jane and their white, middle-class gay and lesbian counterparts.
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