Rhetoric: academic, does address in some sites "those of us" "our communities" so is being written at community members (presumably privileged ones) Main Point: critique of the false universalism of queer (relation to power and not homogenized identity determines comrades), critique of single identity politics ("hetero/queer" divide, assertion that theoretical queerness holds promise for those operating through multiple identities), heteronormativity as policing both straight and gay people, focus on stigma and power inequities as they cut across that divide, insistence on the value of theorizing from a position of marginality (black feminism), details the historical exclusion of black people from heterosexual normativity (marriage about who is fit for citizenship, so see ban on interracial marriage and forced sterilization, etc), how to build coalitional politics (interconnected sites of resistance based on ideological, social, political marginalization links), assimilation as only serving the most privileged in a marginalized group, focus on lived experience
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