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THE ORIG OF QUEER THEORY: GAYLE RUB’S “THKG SEX”
“People who thk that queer life nsists of sex whout timacy are ually seeg only a ty part of the picture, and seeg through homophobic stereotype. And the way many gay men and lbians live, que sual sexual relatns n velop to powerful and endurg iendships.
Bee gay social life is not as rualized and stutnalized as straight life, each relatn is an adventure nearly un-charted terrory—whether is between two gay men, or two lbians, or a gay man and a lbian, or among three or more queers, or between gay men and the straight women whose mment to queer culture brgs them the punishment of the "fag hag" label. They n be plex and bewilrg, a way that aro fear among many gay people, and tremendo ristance and rentment om many straight people. If there is such a thg as a gay way of life, nsists the relatns, a welter of timaci outsi the amework of profsns and stutns and ordary social obligatns.
As highlighted by “effemate” gay men, trans women, femm, drag queens, and “bad girls, ” is possible to be perceived as excsively, sufficiently, or wrongly feme whout for that sake beg seen as mascule. “Perhaps the most radil aspect of queer polics was s claim not only to transcend the homo/hetero boundary but to do so such a way as to challenge the sexual regulatn and reprsn of heterosexual sire, above all female sire. The re-workg of notns of monogamy and the send-up of marriage through queer weddgs, the greater sexual adventurism, the rejectn of the ncept of gay men and lbians as ‘victims’ favour of assertivens and refn, and the emphasis on the creatn of more egalarian relatnships the domtic, sexual and social spher, were all ced as exampl of how queer uld ntribute to a new sexual agenda of empowerment.