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Cohen assignment

During the 1900’s real-life politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender started to emerge. Queers are usually underrepresented politically, which drives the community to create a new platform for themselves in order to speak up and stand out.  In Queer politics, sexual expression is something that progresses change, movement, redefinition, everyday. Queers are usually discluded in groups because of the un acceptance heterosexuals. They are not seen as normal to heterosexuals. Something that makes the queer community different than any other group is their willingness to confront power by emphasizing their “anti-normal” characteristic and traits.  They are fully aware of their “un normalness” and use it to their power to speak for themselves .

However, the inability of queer politics to effectively make changes is because of the dominance in the heterosexuals.  Heterosexuals are represented as dominant and more in control, whereas homosexuals are seen as marginalized and invisible in the real world. This show why people in the LQBT communities would want their voices to be heard more and why their activism as a whole became stronger.  In my opinion, I think heterosexuals (mostly Republicans) are not aware or don’t want to acceptance homosexual because they are not following the norm.  After taking a political science class, I learned that conservatives are not comfortable with change and/or have a hard time accepting change, which helps me understand and explains (not justify) why they do not accept the change in accepting homosexuals/transgender.

The concept of “de-gaying” reminds me of vice president Mike Pence and his gay conversion theory.  The concept of putting gay people in camps in order to de-gay them.  Although this essay was written 20 years ago, we can see that very little ideas about homosexuality progressed in our government.  This is something that needs to be changed in order for the world to progress and accept everyone for who they are.