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Originally posted by shinjiikari
everything about this quote is wrong I'm getting so much from it like are you trying to say gays are inhumane or the root of gayness is the rejection of procreation i don't get it
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if it were a quick or particularly fun read, i would just direct you to the book, but it's rather long-winded and overly academic, unfortunately… but given a queer person wrote it and a queer person is posting a summary of it, i think you can safely assume it's not about arguing "gays are inhumane" or inhuman or whatever.
basically, listen to any politician give a speech longer than five minutes and you'll surely hear how all of society is organized around "our children's future"… thus, gays have historically been persecuted because we are a threat to children. (literally, campaigns like "Save Our Children From Homosexuality," propaganda portraying all gays as pedophiles, etc. but also the idea that gays don't reproduce, gays can't have families, and so on—these views have drastically changed in the past 25 years with the campaigns for marriage and whatnot, but they've definitely been there as explanation for how we're a "threat to the fabric of society.")
lee edelman is simply arguing that instead of shouting
NO NO we're all totally about children and we believe in creating a better world for them too! maybe it would be cool if we said something like
yup we're actually living for ourselves and don't want to constantly defer to “THE FUTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN,” we want the world NOW!