Post-modern Queer Politics
2008
“What I see now is much more of a
continuum, for younger gay people, and some who aren’t, the whole thing
of ‘Queer Politics’, saying ‘As long as you’re not normal you’re all
right’ – I quite like that, so the basis on which you find something in
common with people changed quite radically. Events just shifted, not
particularly to do with getting older or mellowing, it’s very much
about the way that the world has changed and needing to respond to
that. My social circle is primarily still other lesbians but that’s not
a political choice now, but a cultural phenomenon. The analysis of
heterosexism (we don’t tend to use the term any more but for a while we
did) – the understanding of diversity and equality that includes
sexuality, in my mind still owes quite a lot to revolutionary feminism,
in terms of an analysis of heterosexuality as a system rather than just
a personal choice. Consequently there is a lot less activism, it feels
very post modern, all about different bits going on and I could equally
be as involved around racism and immigration as I could be around
sexuality”.
Contributed by: Trisha McCabe, 51