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Beyond Gay Identity
Tatchell, Peter
Article
1997
Gay emancipation will destroy gay identity. This is a good thing, because gay identity sustains gay conformism.
The Emperor's New Penis: The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women
Keith, Lierre; Jensen, Derrick
Article
2013
Right now the gender fundamentalists are doing their best to shut down dialogue. They've damaged books — books that don’t even mention their concern — pressured bookstores, and silenced speakers sched...
The End of Gay?
Tatchell, Peter
Article
1997
Gay identity is destined for oblivion once homophobia is overturned.
Feminism and Sadomasochism
Califia, Pat
Article
1981
Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
Fuck Love
Nair, Yasmin
Article
2012
LGBT: a Dissection
Thorstad, David
Article
2016
"LGBT" is everywhere these days. But is it here to stay, or is it a passing fad? Where did it come from? Why was it promoted? By whom? And to what end? How did it acquire its seemingly endless variant...
Making Gay Redundant
Tatchell, Peter
Article
1996
Peter Tatchell suggests that gay identity has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with homophobia. Winning gay freedom will make gay identity redundant.
The New Sexual Radicalism: Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism
Drucker, Peter
Article
2010
What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision - whether implicit or explicit - of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projec...
The Politics of Being Queer
Goodman, Paul
Article
1969
Goodman writes: "On balance, I don't know whether my choice, or compulsion, of a bisexual life has made me especially unhappy or only averagely unhappy. It is obvious that every way of life has its ha...
The Professor of Parody
Nussbaum, Martha
Article
2000
It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are.
Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism
McCaskell, Tim
Book
2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
A queer take on Safe Schools and identity politics
Copland, Simon; Riley, Benjamin
Article
2016
In recent weeks, the debate over the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program has intensified, taking what is in many ways a bizarre turn. The brief suspension of program architect Roz Ward from h...
Queer theories and militant practices
Girard, Gabriel
Article
2009
A critical look at queer theories.
The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism
Floyd, Kevin
Book
2009
A new theoretical approach to the relationship between Marxism and queer studies.
Review: The Politics of Some Bodies - On "Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection"
Drucker, Peter
Article
2017
At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybo...
Toward A Queer Marxism?: Against The Current vol. 151
Drucker, Peter
Article
2011
Scholarly approaches to sexuality since the 1980s have become increasingly divorced from practical sexual politics, and both have largely given up on earlier attempts to engage with Marxism. Now this ...
What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
Nair, Yasmin
Article
2012
We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our...

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Queer Theory
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Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of gay and lesbian studies and feminist studies. It is a kind of hermeneutics devoted to queer readings of ...

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SexSources.ca
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2017
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools ma...