Years later, I learned a catchy word to describe this phenomenon: homonormativity. (At least it’s slightly catchier than, say, “neoliberal hegemony of the queer community at large.”) Professor Lisa Duggan popularized the term, writing, “We have been administered a kind of political sedative—we get marriage and the military, then we go home and cook dinner forever.” Her point was that if we only focus on equality, we’ll only end up achieving assimilation. While that’s still a form of progress,V there’s a blatant cognitive dissonance in associating “queer liberation” with access to straight
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