There's No Queer Liberation Without Fighting Capitalism

This pink flag that says QUEERS AGAINST CAPITALISM has been hangging in my apartment for as long as I can remember. It comes from some rally/event I attended in the 2000s I guess.

Back in 2005 or 2006, I wrote a short story called "How I Went Back to the Closet." It was basically about my feeling that queer liberation would never really be possible until we defeated capitalism. Queer joy, in fact, would always be partial and provisional as long as plutocrats held any sway over our lives.

In "How...