because queer circuits of desire do not rely on the erotic encounter of “opposites” embedded in a broader culture of gendered acrimony and alienation, queer lust need not reconcile a conflict between wanting to fuck and generally disliking one’s fuckable population. Queer desire does not immediately hit up against prescripted, institutionally sanctioned misogyny. This means that something very powerful is possible in queer life that I rarely see in straight culture: a merging of objectifying desire, on the one hand, and a feminist, subjectifying respect for those who are desired, on the other.
Is "queer" appropriate to use in this context? Or the most accurate word for what Ward is attempting to describe? What would be wrong with replacing it with "homosexual desire" if it is simply describing the act of desiring?
