QueerPoltics

[undergroundpanther]

Since some here insist on seperating catagorizing and labeling who is gblt or if other people as worthy or not,..I might remind people what QUEERpolitics is..And why Queer liberation matters to everyone even straights....Queer matters more than defining the fine lines between crossdressers VS transsexuals..

Queer is not outside the magnetic field of identity. Like some postmodern architecture, it turns identity inside out, and displays its supports exoskeletally. If the dialogue between queer and more traditional identity formations is sometimes fraught--which it is--that is not because they have nothing in common.
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-Dec-1996/jagose.html
Identity Politics

Not limited to activity in the traditionally conceived political sphere, identity politics refers to activism, politics, theorizing, and other similar activities based on the shared experiences of members of a specific social group (often relying on shared experiences of oppression). Groups who engage in identity politics include not only those organized around sexual and gender identities, but also around such identities as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and disability.

The most important and revolutionary element of identity politics is the demand that oppressed groups be recognized not in spite of their differences but specifically because of their differences. Identity politics was an important, and perhaps necessary, precursor to the current emphasis on multiculturalism and diversity in American society.

http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/identity_politics.html

(These five key) ideas of queer politics represent a re-awakening of the radical utopian vision that fired the lesbian and gay liberation movement of the early 1970s. This vision was lost when civil rights and law reform came to dominate lesbian and gay campaigning in the conservative decade that followed.

Now, in the 90s, radicalism is re-emerging in the updated and modernised form of queer politics. This new agenda confidently embraces the goals of both civil rights and sexual liberation. While supporting law reform, it also has a vision which goes beyond it. Queer politics is an idea whose time has come.

http://www.petertatchell.net/Equality%20-%20Limits%20and%20Deficiencies/beyond%20equality.htm
http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-56-5

[DarkTirade]

1. Jesus t*ttyf*cking Christ on a seatless bicycle...

Quit trying to play the victim here. No one is excluding you. Most of us are, however, getting a little pissed off that you feel the need to keep accusing us of it.