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

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The Evolution of Queer Theory

In the 80s, there was two major branches of radical feminism. Gil Rubin was in the sex positive category and many of the feminist luminaries at the time were in the sex negative category. This is a set of ideas that over the next seven to 10 years evolved into what became named queer theory. Since then it has evolved to the point where one of the major targets is the innocence of children. And now we have groomer schools.

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