Queer theory: Difference between revisions

According to Adam Isaiah Green, a professor at the [[University of Toronto]], queer theory might be doing a disservice to the study of queer people for, among other reasons, unduly doing away with categories of sexuality and gender that had an explanatory role in their original context. He argues that for instance the lesbians documented in Cherry Grove, Fire Island: sixty years in America's first gay and lesbian town in [[Cherry Grove, New York|Cherry Grove]], [[Fire Island, New York]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newton |first=Esther |url=http://archive.org/details/cherrygrovefirei00newt |title=Cherry Grove, Fire Island : sixty years in America's first gay and lesbian town |date=1993 |publisher=Boston : Beacon Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-8070-7926-3}}</ref> chose to identify specifically as either "Ladies", "Dykes" or "Postfeminists" for generational, ethnic and class reasons. While they have a shared sexuality, flattening their diversity of identity, culture and expression to "the lesbian community" might be undue and hide the social contigencies that queer theory purports to foreground (race, class, ethnicity, gender).<ref name="Green">{{Cite journal|language=English|last1=Green|first1=Adam Isaiah|title=Gay but not queer: Toward a post-queer study of sexuality|journal=Theory and Society|volume=31|number=4|date=2002|doi=10.1023/A:1020976902569|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1023/A:1020976902569 |access-date=2020-11-07|pages=521–545|s2cid=140739910 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>