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The Queer Gnostic Cult

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The Progenitor of Queer Theory

After Beauvoir, Michel Foucault stands out as the progenitor of queer theory. Teresa de Laurentiis de la Rettis named it queer theory in 92 or 93 and David Halperin in 1995 gave the first authoritative definition of the word queer. So you remember that it was a radical politics of sex for Gayle Rubin if you listen to that podcast I did on Thinking SexYou actually hear that in Butler this radical sexual politics that they're looking for is called "queer"

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