![]() ‘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. The revolutionary power of sex is something the queer community has tried to teach America. Sex brought us queers together in alleyways and underground toilets, where we found we weren’t alone. Then it brought us together in bars and bathhouses, where our numbers grew. Then it took us “out of the closet and into the streets”, where we won elected positions. 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. Sex brings people together regardless of race, class and even politics. 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.
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