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Rewriting the Romance Script

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Queer Life: A Different Kind of Unchartedness Than Straight People

I think because one of its defining features is normativity. Many street people are following a particular kind of script about what heterosexual success looks like. In queer culture, there's a lot more that is unknown. This isn't to say that there aren't totally out of the box, very interesting street people. But it is to say that, in general, queer people find the heterosexual script with so many of the rituals. To all just be suffocatingly predictable and born.

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