If schools and families are the primary institutional bearers of history and memory, how are queers supposed to generate a historical consciousness when family members at best usually do not identify as part of the community and at worst create a hostile environment for queer identity, and when schools render queerness invisible? The lack of family, elders, and affirming institutions is one of the key factors that make queers a minority unlike almost any other, lacking in the basic tools for creating a collective consciousness.
