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A ‘Queer’ Argument Against Marriage
Writer and editor of That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks to NPR about how the current gay rights movement has departed from in gay liberation radicalism. Though Sycamore doesn’t use the term, she resists the “homonormativity” of gay assimilation, which she identifies as really trying to access privileges traditionally enjoyed by heterosexuals (but privilege nonetheless). Though I reject her categorization of marriage, military service, adoption, and ordination into the priesthood as “straight issues,” I ultimately concur that gays accessing state-consolidated privilege does not mean equality has been achieved. Rather, it merely means that the circle of privilege has been enlarged to include LGBs who can abide by an acceptable form of queerness.
Only through the dismantling of privilege itself where even the most gender queer, or other relationship configurations are respected and protected, will we all be able to take a step forward together toward equality.
Transcript here.
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