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

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The Anchor for Subjectivity in Queer Theory

I use the term pervert as a shorthand for all of the stigmatized sexual orientations. As these become less disreputable, the term has increasingly referred to other deviations. I'm using these terms in a denitative fashion and do not intend them to convey any disapproval on my part. But that's got to be kept in the back of the mind because that's what queer theory came into existence in the end to do.

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