NO MO? Queer theory and infinite possibilities

Preface: Essentially for all these journal entries I will go on about how I find all this information fascinating. I can talk about what I find more fascinating or less incredible, but basically the essay will feel like a fan girl’s letter to the Backstreet Boys (actually NSync, since they’re better). So I will try to be more creative with my responses and we’ll see how it works.

It is surprising the word gay didn’t become synonymous with homosexual until the late 30s—but then again, it’s surprising that the two words became synonymous at all. How is it that giddy happiness is equated to homosexuality, and then it is looked down upon ass sinful? It’s all due to the King George Bible. It’s interesting and depressing to see how powerful religion is on views of sexuality. And now much of society is heteronormative-beliving and gay bashing. Just today the Westboro Baptist Church (although an extreme example) protested the pass of the Gay Marriage bill in DC; I had a lot of friends who went and coutnerprotested with funny signs. But I would like to believe the more progressive, intellectual groups of society believe something closer to Queer theory.

I absolutely agree with queer theory. Were I not such a typical American Human being, obsessed with defining and describing, putting people and ideas into groups, then I would live my life free of labels. I feel if more people understood and applied queer theory—to not only sexuality and gender, but to every defined idea society, the world would be a more understanding place. Life wouldn’t be about hate because the goal would be to understand perspectives—and even then, there wouldn’t be definite perspectives: no “homosexual perspective” no “impoverished point of view”; instead there would be “Adam’s view of the world”, “Sydney’s point of view”. Each person would be a unique personality that would give rise to his or her (even though in a queer theory-abiding world, we wouldn’t have to define each other by such definite sex pronouns; such a revolution would really be in conflict with grammar, among other things) own creative ideas. A queer world is an unlimited world.