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WGS160Y1 Lecture 11: Lecture 11.doc

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brownfox547
1 Apr 2012
School
UTSG
Department
Women and Gender Studies
Course
WGS160Y1
Professor
Dina Georgis

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A politics that does not contest dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions but upholds and sustains them. Prominent lesbian and gay rights organizations increasingly embrace agendas that vie for acceptance within contemporary economic and political systems. These organizations have accepted certain rights while giving up activist agenda"s that the mainstream might have a problem with. Neoliberal philosophy of consumer and private rights rather than that of citizen rights. Normative culture has accepted gays to a certain degree because it benefits from it. Endorse normative and family-oriented formations associated with domestic partnership, monogamy (against promiscuity to prevent aids), adoption, and gender-normative social roles. There is a kind of erosion in celebrating perversion. Gender normative social roles queer"s need to clean up their act and look representable to culture. Leading organization was the independent gay forum. They wanted legal equality and inclusion; in turn, gays would contribute to. They wanted gays to be imagined as being contributors to the nation/state.

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