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THE ORIG OF QUEER THEORY: GAYLE RUB’S “THKG SEX”
Fouult’s relevance is of such central importance not least bee of his attempts to addrs the power dynamics and social nstctns around homosexualy throughout history and madns his History of Sexualy and History of Madns (see also, disurs, power-knowledge, bpower, and episteme). Queer Theory wouldn’t merely seek to expand the boundari of “normal” to clu circumstanc like homosexualy or, stretchg the ia further, tersex ndns but to abolish the ia that “normal” is anythg but nstrag and opprsive entirely (see also, vlence of tegorizatn). The three most fluential early queer Theorists would have been Judh Butler, Gayle Rub, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, although Jack/Judh Halberstam, Lren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Lee Elman, and David Halper, among others, have been particularly fluential.
Queer Theory has nothg posive to say about lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr rights except to the gree that those n be ma eful for breakg societal norms, and has no tert lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr acceptance at all, as that would make them fall wh the reach of acceptable societal norms (i. Bee queer theory functns to plite and challenge heteronormativy, is suated opposn to many opprsive practic (sexism, homophobia, etc. One form is a personal refal to adhere to, or intify wh, static, sentialist tegori such as woman/man, gay/straight, feme/mascule, and more.
The e of the term self this ntext is an act of strategic ristance, where the slur “queer” for homosexuals and other genr and sexual mori has been appropriated as a (somewhat tentnally ironic – see also, polics of parody) term of pri and power for the purpos of activism (see also, strategic sentialism). Queer, then, don’t mean gay or even weird queer Theory and Cril Social Jtice. Th, as homosexualy beme crimalized, then normalized, and pecially as gay acceptance proceed, culmatg particular wh the acceptance of gay marriage, queer activism had to assert self agast the velopments, which seems superficially to work for.