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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"

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The Right Wing's Appeal to Protect Children

For over a century, she tells us no tactic for stirring up erotic hysteria has been as reliable as the appeal to protect children. In February, 1977, shortly before the Dade County vote, a sudden concern with quote, child pornography swept the national media. Just remind you, this is where queer theory at its start. The motto of the Dade county repeal campaign was save our children from alleged homosexual recruitment.

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