{"id":262,"date":"2018-04-01T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=262"},"modified":"2018-04-01T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T23:48:26","slug":"week-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/week-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u201cEquality, Inc,\u201d Lisa Duggan outlines how equality has come become devoid of its originally radical intentions of overthrowing an unjust system and instead has aligned with providing access to existing broken institutions. An example of this is the gay and lesbian elite\u2019s \u201cgay tunnel vision,\u201d which focuses only on so-called gay issues, such as marriage equality, leaving issues of other queers, including those of poverty and homelessness, in the dark. Duggan names the Human Rights Campaign as an organization that has been compliant with the politics of neoliberalism in its \u201ctop-down corporate planning process\u201d (Duggan 46) and notes how the HRC has taken on the same functions as wealthy lobbying groups as its method of establishing political change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The conception of \u201cconventional gays\u201d who cast out the ideologies of \u201cextreme leftist queers\u201d as too radical also relies on the assumption that equality can trickle down from the most privileged class (usually white gay men) to a less privileged class. By even producing the term \u201cconventional gays,\u201d any other group of queers is pitted against those who represent the norm or rather those who are white and economically privileged. The definition of equality that Duggan\u2019s chapter concludes with is limited in the nature of the areas it covers and in the people who can be considered as equals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Duggan, Lisa. \u201cEquality, Inc.\u201d The Twilight of Equality?, edited by Lisa Duggan, Beacon Press: 2004, pp. 43-66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cEquality, Inc,\u201d Lisa Duggan outlines how equality has come become devoid of its originally radical intentions of overthrowing an unjust system and instead has aligned with providing access to existing broken institutions. An example of this is the gay and lesbian elite\u2019s \u201cgay tunnel vision,\u201d which focuses only on so-called gay issues, such as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/week-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 11&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}