in allying themselves with gay men, lesbians set aside the importance of biology (with its significance for how different sexes experience the world and relate to patriarchal society and to sexual acts themselves) in order to present a common front against a common enemy: heteronormative society. In retrospect, this was a critical move because it ultimately paved the way for the addition of the T and the Q to the alliance on the basis that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
