![]() ![]() That is why the places they’ve dealt with us homosexuals, transsexuals, interssexuals and the like have so often been medical: the surgeon’s clinic, the analyst’s couch, the psychiatrist’s asylum, the conversionist’s camp. No wonder, then, that in the eyes of the bosses, fathers, priests, cops, and their allies, we threaten to pull the entire world with us into a decadent morass of pleasure, joy, laziness, and freedom. ![]() At its best, queerness promises porous, polymorphous perversities, a refusal to submit to proper relations beyond consenting desire. In the West, we are a disease on the social, an illness to be cured and purged from a healthy body politic. 736 pages.ĮVEN BEFORE AIDS, patriarchy has made an association between queers and plague. Discussed in this essay: Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993, by Sarah Schulman. ![]()
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