“One reason why we have not learned more from this history is that queers do not have the institutions for common memory and generational transmission around which straight culture is built. Every new wave of queer youth picks up something rom its predecessors but also invents itself from scratch. Many are convinced that they have nothing to learn from old dykes and clones and trolls, and no institutions–neither households nor schools nor churches nor political groups–ensure that this will happen. And since the most painfully instructed generation has been decimated by death, the queer culture of the present faces more than the usual shortfall in memory. Now younger queers are told all too often that a principled defense of nonnormative sex is just a relic of bygone ‘liberationism.’ This story is given out in bland confidence, since so many of the people who would have contradicted it have died.”
Really makes you think
That’s an almost neoreactionary thought about queer people and social fabric dressed up in progressive language.
@mitigatedchaos (Now with more statism) would probably solve this problem by requiring you to take three-weeks of evening classes at your municipal DLGBT to get your queering license.
No no no,
The correct institution to ensure the inter-generational passage of queer knowledge is the Queer Nuclear Family,
