The Gay Science | The Anarchist Library

Contents:

• SURPRISG THGS WE OWE TO THE GAY COMMUNY
• THE GAY SCIENCE

SURPRISG THGS WE OWE TO THE GAY COMMUNY

For Rav Mykg, whose bety ed the pastor of a homophobic megachurch to oth at the mouth and clare the arrival of wolv to hunt his sheep, and ed the sheep to fall to the ground, speakg tongu and prayg for their absent god. Technologi of the Genred Body: Readg Cyb Women by Anne Marxism:The Reifitn of Dire: Toward a Queer Marxism by Kev and Pleasure: Sexual Inti Late Capalism by Rosemary Gay Normaly and Queer Anti-Capalism by Peter Dcker. Anarcho-LGBT is an anarchist school of thought which advot anarchism and social revolutn as a means of gay liberatn and aboln of homophobia, lbophobia, transmisogyny, biphobia, transphobia, heteronormativy, heterosexism, patriarchy, and the genr bary.

View Trip — Jam Schuyler, “A Man Blue”, om Collected Poems Lguistic novatns In the 1960s, a nt language known as Polari appeared all over Bra and was spoken by some actors, prostut, sailors, and more signifintly by the gay muny. Queer: beme the preferred label for many gay people who preferred a ls-fixed label queen/mp/nancy: flamboyant or effemate gay man fierce: of “exceptnal qualy” “That was a read”: ed to mock someone a humoro way werk: batn of “walk” and “twerk” tea: gossip throw sha: cricize publicly Gay anarchism Way before the emergence of the gay movement, sex was already hugely prevalent the gay muny. "Later, on a speakg tour Portland, Oregon, Goldman says: "My tour this year met wh no police terference until we reached Portland, Oregon, although the subjects I treated were anythg but tame: anti-war topics, the fight for Caplan and Schmidt, eedom love, birth-ntrol, and the problem most tabooed pole society, homosexualy.

THE GAY SCIENCE

"Goldman found ristance to her pro-gay stance even the anarchist movement: "Anarchism was already enough misunrstood, and anarchists nsired praved; was advisable to add to the misnceptns by takg up perverted sex-forms, they argued. She died 1940, never havg met Osr all her , her fense of the rights of homosexuals was the most radil for the time: "It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are ught a world which shows so ltle unrstandg for homosexuals and is so crassly different to the var gradatns and variatns of genr and their great signifince life. In the retrospective valuatn of his work which appears "Ecce Homo" the thor himself observ wh tth that the fourth book, "Sanct Januari, " serv pecial attentn: "The whole book is a gift om the Sat, and the troductory vers exprs my gratu for the most wonrful month of January that I have ever spent.

The more universally and unndnally an dividual, or the thought of an dividual, n operate, so much more homogeneo and so much lower mt be the mass that is there operated upon; while unter-strivgs betray ternal unter-requirements, which also want to gratify and realise themselv. —Among the Europeans of to-day there are not lackg those who may ll themselv homels on a way which is at once a distctn and an honour; is by them that my secret wisdom and gaya scienza is pecially to be laid to heart! ‘Queer’ then, mart not a posivy but a posnaly vis-à-vis the normative—a posnaly that is not rtricted to lbians and gay men, but is fact available to anyone who is or who feels margalized bee of his or her sexual practic.

The reason the term “queer, ” this sense, isn’t rtricted to “gay” or “lbian” is bee many sexual practic are nsired abnormal—some that aren’t primarily based on genr (for stance, particular ways of havg sex—like BDSM—or particular ways of fashng or arrangg sexual relatnships—like nonmonogamy or sex work). Now, the aftermath of the nseatgly class-elist failed mpaign, [19] gay and lbian anizatns, and the profsnal activists that prop them up, rema riliently ristant to crilly qutng what we, as queer and trans subjects, are seekg to be equal to the first place. By dissectg the petg disurs, one n see that marriage has ltle to do wh love and that the mastream gay and lbian anizatns’ vtments wng the gay marriage battle further ero any possibily for a radilly equable queer future—a future that was once dared to be imaged by radil queer and trans folks anizg wh ACT UP, Queer to the Left, and the Gee Jackson Briga, and is still imaged today by radil grassroots anizatns like Queers for Enomic Jtice, La Gai-Queer Insurrectn, and Gay Shame, to name a few.

Gay marriage anizatns are mobilizg this rights-based disurse foced on “equal” accs to state benefs and privileg tanm wh highly effective love rhetoric to w over public opn by appealg to socialized emotnal rpons while simultaneoly makg a more strategic/analytic argument for gay marriage. The normalizg functn of this claim, that lovg fai n only exist wh the narrow nf of an immediate nuclear fay stcture (gay or straight), will ntue to mark some fai as worthy of survival and others as a adly threat. [26] As noted by gay historian John D’E his piece “The Marriage Fight Is Settg Us Back, ” greater acceptance of gay and lbian people has largely e om straight people abandong fantasy faial nservatism optg for queerer more nontradnal ways of anizg both their erotic liv and their fai.

For example, the heightened emphasis on the ia that gay marriage is necsary for same-sex partners to ga health surance allows the state to further jtify not creatg a system of universal health re where all people, regardls of maral stat receive necsary medil re.

[30] Furthermore, equaly rhetoric has created a vacuum of gay pragmatism[31] which our queer polil imagatn has whered away, allowg no time or space to even image more jt, more equable ways of meetg our material and affective needs as a larger muny. A good qutn to brg this pot home might be: Who is more opprsed, erased, and margalized as a rult of their sexualy—an upper-class whe gay man livg the Castro or a poor, workg-class heterosexual woman of lor livg the Bible Belt who has a number of heterosexual relatnships, is promiscuo, and is open about and proud of ?

This don’t mean we shouldn’t challenge the LGBT muny on ncepts such as pulsory monogamy, homonormativy, racism the movement, an uncril fight for gay marriage, or the problematic stggl for hate crime legislatn and for the cln of “gays the ary” and what have you.