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PoMoSexual Pioneer

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September/October 1998
by Katherine Raymond, from the book PoMoSexuals 
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I don't mean to say that I think homophobia isn't my problem. It hurt a lot when I was a child, and it still does whenever I encounter it now. It's just that homophobia­­—and the queer subculture's occasional reaction of defensive elitism—is by definition ignorant, and as such has nothing to do with who I really am, or who any queer (or straight) person really is.

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That's why I resent the implicit imperative to organize my identity around queerness, to walk down the street wrapped in a queer mantle based on the way I look. I would like to fight for gay rights regardless of whom I have sex with, or don't have sex with. I would like to desire, to fantasize without censoring myself based on political implications and thoughts that no one else will ever hear. I don't want to feel guilty for not getting any. I want to be a sexual being without defining myself solely or even primarily on the basis of my sexuality.

Katherine Raymond is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and Web designer. Her fiendish plan for world domination is outlined at http://apokrypha.com. Adapted from PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (Cleis Press, 1997).

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