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![From very early on in the history of the epidemic, Aids has been mobilised to a prior agenda of issues concerning the kind of society we wish to inhabit. [...] Aids is effectively being used as a pretext throughout the West to "justify" calls for increasing legislation and regulation of those who are considered to be socially unacceptable.
— Simon Watney, Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS, and the Media (1987)
the thing about acceptable targets is that they reflect the hegemony of the ruling class, and nowhere is this so apparent as applied to the queer community. the queer, writes the Mary Nardini Gang, "[has] always been the other, the alien, the criminal. The story of queers in this civilization has always been the narrative of the sexual deviant, the constitutional psychopathic inferior, the traitor, the freak, the moral imbecile."
that being the acceptable target in this manner engenders immense suffering and resentment is obvious; nobody, i presume, takes unconditional joy in being a part of the “resistance to regimes of the normal,” as Michael Warner once put it. there is, within all of us queers, some essence that against our own desire begs to assimilate. to become one with the ruling class. to finally exercise for ourselves the “mechanism of social control” that is inherent to labeling deviancy. [see: Mary McIntosh, “The Homosexual Role” (1968), reprinted in Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy, ed. Edward Stein (New York: Routledge, 1992), p. 27.] to—in one punch downward upon another group, particularly one that is ‘immoral’—externalize every second of our suffering and resentment in such a way that someone else can finally understand and feel.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6aybno3ecyn6tt5mzjqncsmg/bafkreibj2bhb5q4h2b2v4ux22n3sldhj5tq2cbokwwpesxda7j2rulmxcm)
![but the assimilationist desire; the attempt to make one's self ‘normal’ and ‘respectable’ in contrast to others; the yearning to use the master's tools ‘for good’—these must always meet the reality of a heteronormative world. deviancy is degeneracy, and degeneracy must be destroyed. we are the subjects, to use a turn of phrase from Simon Watney, of “an imaginary national family unit which is both white and heterosexual” and to whom anything unfamiliar is indecent. [see: Simon Watney, Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS, and the Media (1987), p. 43] to this imaginary family—always of the nuclear variety, always the one who holds both discursive and ideological power—nothing besides total renunciation of queer identity, and nothing besides its placing back in the closet, will ever good enough. the only move that can buy them off is collaboration.
your polyamorous relationship, your furry identity, your therianthropy, your most deeply stigmatized fetish—these will never be made ‘respectable’ to anybody in any position of power through sacrificing the most “undesirable” faggot to the wolves. to believe otherwise is how heteronormative society co-opts those who want to liberate into those who actually collaborate. when you accept that we must throw away certain “undesirables,” must label them “deviants,” what you are accepting is the very ideological and moral foundation upon which heteronormativity is built: only what does not transgress, what does not challenge the sensibilities of straightness, is permissible.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6aybno3ecyn6tt5mzjqncsmg/bafkreialdahprv2mhn3vzmsop3wxw4a7gqfhkkndlevplbaao42rcjncka)
