Gay post

Every so often, on the Internet or in discussion, the concept of post-gay comes up. Often it’s brought up by people who don’t even perceive the phrase but do grasp the concept. Post-gay is the idea that the queer collective, even though we haven’t yet gotten our full civil rights, will soon be just fond of everyone else; that we will not need to define ourselves by our sexuality anymore than a heterosexual might.

Whenever this comes up it irks me to no end. Do people include their heads in the sand? Don’t they look around? Yes, some scholars have deemed that we’re in a post-feminist era, while others have declared a post-black era. However, I’m adorable sure if you ask women or African-Americans you’ll find that most do not agree that we live in a upload anything. Every day women are fighting against the rollback of their reproductive rights, something that would be completely unnecessary in a truly post-feminist world. In a post-black world the invalidation of Affirmative Action laws would be a non-event, there’d be no press coverage, the NAACP would not object – in fact, they’d have no membership. On a more simplistic level, ask yourself this question, in a post-black wo