Zel

In the aftermath of the Stonewall riots during the first ever Pride march (1970), then known as the Christopher street fair, banners read "Queer Liberation," not "We want a piece of the pie." What was demanded was the autonomy for all forms of sexual expression, an end to the policing of public affection, and an immediate halt to the institutional socialization of homophobia, genderphobia, and heterosexism. Demanding liberation and demanding equality are two totally different things. One is saying we want the autonomy to control our own lives, and the other is saying we want the ability to utilize our class, sex, and race privileges to their fullest extent, the same as our heterosexual counter-parts.Our society has demonstrated time and time again that there can be no such thing as equality within it's current racist, sexist, classist, gender-normative institutions, and framework. Equality is made impossible by a system that is designed to give power and privilege to a minority above all others. As radical queers we are fighting for liberation, not a token equality that cannot be achieved within our current society, because nothing short of the complete transformation of this society will give us our liberation.As a radical queers i oppose militarism, capitalism, systems of assigned privilege, state sanctioned relationships such as marriage, and all forms of oppression. Assimilation is oppression for those of us who can't play the part of the well behaved queers.