As Michael Warner writes in The Trouble with Normal: Love can do this too, but sex – and especially queer sex – accomplishes it in a way that is more transformative because queers recognize that no one’s desire is more or less shameful than another’s. Sex brings people together regardless of race, class and even politics. The battles we fought for the right to love and have sex with whoever we want however we want gave this country one of its most significant civil rights victories.ĭesire’s apolitical nature is oddly its political asset. Then it took us “out of the closet and into the streets”, where we won elected positions. Then it brought us together in bars and bathhouses, where our numbers grew. Sex brought us queers together in alleyways and underground toilets, where we found we weren’t alone.
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The revolutionary power of sex is something the queer community has tried to teach America. ‘One way to fight this trickle-down sexual shame is by insisting our politicians talk frankly and positively about sex.’ Photograph: Image Broker/REX No matter what their positions were on living wage laws, parental leave, abortion access or any other policies that could improve women’s lives, they would be pundited right out of the polls. But the reality is it would be hard to imagine any candidate holding a fundraiser at a strip club. The campaign’s demurral captured a criticism that many people in the queer community have made of the first viable out-of-the-closet candidate for the US presidency: he’s just not queer enough. In a small but revealing moment last month, Pete Buttigieg’s campaign canceled a fundraiser at a gay bar because the owner refused to remove a dance pole from the premises. More often, though, sex isn’t allowed to enter our politics at all.
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The former New York congressman Anthony Weiner was convicted of sending dick pics to a minor. Bill Clinton faced a scandal over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, and was accused of sexual assault by several women. The current president is a self-avowed perpetrator who defended the alleged pedophile Roy Moore and was buddies with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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W hen sex enters America’s national politics, it’s almost always the result of assault or scandal.