When young Americans today say that sexuality “just doesn’t matter,” it is often heralded as a progressive triumph. But sexuality should matter: it should be the thrilling, dangerous, unpredictable, imaginative force it once was and no doubt still is, although more often quietly and out of public sight. If sexuality does not matter anymore, it is not because we won but because of how much we have lost.
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| — | Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed, in If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (via fiveoclockbot) |
