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 know the phrase but do know the idea. Post-gay is the thought that the queer society, even though we haven’t yet gotten our packed civil rights, will soon be just like everyone else; that we will not need to characterize ourselves by our sexuality anymore than a heterosexual might.

Whenever this comes up it irks me to no end. Do people have 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 acquire declared a post-black era. However, I’m pretty sure if you ask women or African-Americans you’ll locate that most do not agree that we reside in a post 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 Deed laws would be a non-event, there’d be no press coverage, the NAACP would not object – in fact, they’d hold no membership. On a more simplistic level, question yourself this question, in a post-black wo