Queer: A Graphic History

People wouldn’t have to come out if heterosexuality wasn’t the assumed norm.

involve more collectivist ideals and value friendship over (hetero)romantic relationships.

Camp often involves explicit parody, exaggeration, theatricality, irony, and humour. In this way, camp representations have the potential to demonstrate the performativity of gender and sexuality, and to disrupt normative representations

These often involved heteronormative love stories, or a hero using their power to restore balance to a (hetero)normative family

Queer theorists are forever putting brackets in the middle of words,* cracking puns, or getting excited about words which have multiple meanings.

queering” as it frequently involves rendering a text queerer by reading it in a certain way.

Essentialist: our identities are fixed
• Reductionist: all gender/sexuality experience can be reduced to our biology (hormones, brain activity)
• Determinist: people’s gender/sexuality is determined by their genetics, hormones, and/or physiology.*

focus of queer biology has been on challenging taken-for-granted scientific (and popular) notions that heteronormativity is “natural” (biologically based and evolved due to the need for procreation), and that therefore all non-human animals are heterosexual and conform to stereotypical gender roles.

focus on language is probably one of the reasons why queer theorists enjoy wordplay so much

Foucault and Butler never said that there was no role for biology in our sexuality or gender. They were simply more interested in how sexuality and gender were historically and culturally produced as constructed categories of experience