The leftwing Radical History Review shines a light on just how
far out of the mainstream some "queer theorists" and activists are.
The RHR, in calling for
papers for a "Queer Futures" issue, notes that:
[F]ilms featuring gay characters and themes are celebrated by mainstream audiences...; "gay marriage" has emerged as the central civil rights cause for powerful organizations like the Human Rights Campaign; urban activists and civic boosters promote "gay business districts" as a means for achieving visibility and equality; and multibillion-dollar markets targeting gay and lesbian tourist dollars are booming
Sounds pretty good, right? Wrong:
[P]rominent lesbian and gay rights organizations increasingly embrace agendas that vie for acceptance within contemporary economic and political systems, thereby abandoning their earlier commitments to economic redistribution and protecting sexual freedoms. This shift has made strange bedfellows out of lesbian and gay rights organizations and social conservatives: both endorse normative and family-oriented formations associated with domestic partnership, adoption, and gender-normative social roles; both tend to marginalize those who challenge serial monogamy and those-including transgender, bisexual, pansexual, and intersex constituencies-who feel oppressed by a binary gender or sex system.
And on it goes, concluding that such strategies "threaten to erase the historic alliance between radical politics and lesbian and gay politics."
It's actually hard to envision what the radical queer left wants
other than ripping apart society and all its norms, including
property rights and any remnants of sexual
inhibition/self-discipline, to be replaced by a redistributionist
order that must be both infantile and totalitarian in
nature.