But this leads me to my final point, that we are beginning to witness an aporia between queer politics, on one hand, and lesbian and gay politics, on the other. Queer politics is anti-assimiliationst, non-individualist, and mobilizes non-communitarian practices of public-sphere media against both the welfare state and the normalizing idea of the social. Lesbian and gay politics relies on a framework of individual identity, community representations, needs and rights discourses, and state provision. Queer politics has developed little in the way of an agenda for the state.
Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics, p. 221 (via start-anywhere)
10/19/09 at 11:10am
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