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Queer Theory Is Queer Marxism

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Queer Theory

The most radical reversal of homophobic discourses consists not in asserting with the gay liberation front of 1968 that gay is good on analogy with black is beautiful but in assuming and empowering a marginal positionality. In other words it's an identity that resists an essence. It is an identity that is oppositional to any stable identity. The homosexual he says is defined by negation and opposition as everything the heterosexual is not.

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