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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.