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The antisocial thesis in queer theory is stated as the idea that LGBTQ+ people are incompatible with society due to societies heteronormative ideas. A particularly interesting premise of this idea that stood out to me was how this theory related to the AIDS epidemic and that 56.8% of News of the World readers thought that AIDS carriers should be sterilized and given treatment to curb their sexual appetite. This is obviously pointed at members of the LGBTQ+ community who, at the time, were seen as one of the only populations that suffered from AIDS (Bersani, 199). Additionally, societies thoughts on sex are based around procreating which causes this inherent struggle between LGBTQ+ individuals and society at large.<\/p>\n
Politically incorrect erotic desires can been defined as acts of social deviance as these “incorrect erotic desires” do not fit in with societies ideas of sexuality at large. This connects to the antisocial thesis because these erotic desires also do not align with societies ideas of sex and sexuality.\u00a0Rodr\u00edguez focuses on fantasy rather than sexual practices because fantasies allow for sexual possibilities outside of just the culture norms of white able bodied men. Rodr\u00edguez’s idea of sexual fantasies allows the inclusion of a spectrum of race, gender, and power within sexual desires as opposed to Bersani and Eldman’s focus on sexual acts and practices which revolve mainly around anal sex.<\/p>\n
Citations:<\/p>\n
Robert L. Caserio, Lee Edelman, Judith Halberstam, Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz and Tim Dean,\u00a0\u201cThe Antisocial Thesis in Queer Theory,\u201d PMLA 121, no. 3 (May, 2006): 819-828.<\/p>\n
Leo Bersani: \u201cIs the Rectum a Grave?\u201d October 43 (Winter, 1987): 197- 222.<\/p>\n
Juana Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez, \u201cQueer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies,\u201d GLQ: A Journal of\u00a0Lesbian and Gay Studies 17, no. 2 (2011): 331-48.<\/p>\n
Lee Edelman, \u201cThe Future Is Kid Stuff,\u201d in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive\u00a0(Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 1-32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The antisocial thesis in queer theory is stated as the idea that LGBTQ+ people are incompatible with society due to societies heteronormative ideas. A particularly interesting premise of this idea that stood out to me was how this theory related to the AIDS epidemic and that 56.8% of News of the World readers thought … <\/p>\n