When queer meant no war and fighting against the body police

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When queer meant no war and fighting against the body police
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Guest Blogger
March 15, 2010 11:00 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/03/when_queer_meant_no_war_and_fighting_against_the_b.php


In the old days, it was pretty easy. Being gay (the all-encompassing word back then for genderqueer/sexqueer) usually meant being smart about a lot of things. In particular, we seemed to understand more rapidly the ways in which our bodies were connected to every other body that had been and was being policed. When on June 28, 1970, the Gay Liberation Front of NYC organized a Gay Liberation March to commemorate the Stonewall Rebellion of the year before, the organizers aimed to free sexuality, transform the family as an institution, end anti-queer violence, and develop a new vocabulary for the erotic. To do this, it was understood that the march had to be organized against consumerism, militarism, racism and sexism. You couldn't do one without the other. That's what we used to understand.