This also helps explain the reason why the current disciplinary diversity in the humanities is not simply an expansion or broadening of that which has gone before. It is not that queer history is merely supplementing the lacunae in previous historical narratives; its intention is rather to destabilize the received narratives of the past and the alleged power structures in the present that depend on them, and that is a political purpose predicated on the abolition of the prepolitical as a workable category.
