The pro-family politic in the queer community has overwhelmed a lot of things that we once understood but no longer remember. Childcare is privatized instead of collectivized. Interestingly (and I leave it to historians to chart this one), lesbians in the feminist movement of the 1970s and ’80s, before the dawning of the pro-natalist mentality, were more overtly active for quality child care, which was considered to be one of a number of issues that were grouped together as “reproductive rights” (“Abortion rights, affordable and safe birth control, an end to Sterilization Abuse, Lesbian Rights
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