queeranarchism:

The big difference between liberal LGBT identity politics and revolutionary queer politics is:

That the goal of liberal LGBT identity politics is to present four (or 5, 6, 7, depending on the acronym) clearly defined LGBT identities with an easily digestable narrative to them to so that LGBT people may be understood, incorporated into societies notions of normalcy and turned into respectable citizens under capitalism. 

While the goal of revolutionary queer politics is to complicate identity, to defy definition, to disrupt clear narratives, to continue to be confusing and paradoxical, so that queer people can not be incorporated or turned into respectable citizens and can continue on their struggle to destroy normalcy and respectability, which is a struggle that connects us to all struggles against oppression. 

If we seem blatantly sexual or grotesquely unfuckable, if we make polite company uncomfortable, if we seem self-contradicting, if we wear slurs like badges of honor, if we’re bad rolemodels, if we seem weird or dangerous, that’s the point. 

mightily-oat: Seems like you are linking you’re sexual orientation with something political, and by using that orientation as a political tool are lumping everyone else under the lgbt+ spectrum in with you.
Like sure, be radical or whatever but don’t try and use your identity to be so because it creates associations with that label that other people don’t want to be associated with.
Like isn’t this just reinforcing the whole gay agenda narrative?

domesticfae: @mightily-oats are you really commenting on someone’s post about how it’s not safe to assimilate and their involuntary sterilization and saying “gee I sure hate these identity politics, you should just assimilate so we don’t scare the straights”

Here’s a thought:

I, as a person that falls under the LGBT+ spectrum do NOT want to be associated with a politics of integration into capitalist society, or with the celebration of LGBT cops and CEOs, or with rainbow packaging on products from companies that make the planet unlivable. And LGBT activists that participate in this politics of integration connect their sexual orientation and gender identity to a political status quo that absolutely horrifies me. That’s a very political act.

My lived experience as an oppressed person logically makes me care about the fate of other oppressed people and thus leads me to reject of all forms of oppression, including capitalism, cops and the state. It’s called caring about people other than yourself and people exactly like you. What’s your excuse?