The idea that gay people were inferior to straight people was as generally unquestioned as the idea that women were inferior to men, or blacks to whites. And it was this that made “Notes on ‘Camp’” as threatening as black nationalism was to white supremacy or the birth control pill—approved in 1960—to male supremacy. To see gay people taking charge of aesthetics meant they would be in charge of the ways they would be seen, another of the “revolutions of feelings and seeing.”
