But you don't agree with "the framework of radical anti-assimilationism," at least as articulated by Queer Nation. In fact, you specifically disagree with it; the notions of allosexism and monosexism, the notion that SGA is irrelevant to queerness, none of that is compatible with the ideas in Queers Read This. That's what's funny about your "team."
Wanna know what’s hilarious about your position, anon?
You’re telling me what I believe when you clearly have no clue what you’re talking about. Please quote me saying anything even vaguely like “SGA is irrelevant to queerness.” It’s a shitty shitty term, and it’s only one way queerness manifests, but it is not irrelevant. It’s just not the sum total.
Further, I’m not sure if you’re reading the same document I did. The one I read explicitly and directly supports an intersectional approach to fighting bigotry, whether or not the bigotry in question is directly against queer people for being queer.
Being queer is not about a right to privacy; it is about the freedom to be public, to just be who we are. It means everyday fighting oppression; homophobia, racism, misogyny, the bigotry of religious hypocrites and our own self-hatred. (We have been carefully taught to hate ourselves.)
This is rather difficult to reconcile with the “homophobia and transphobia” narrative you folks like to push, and certainly lays a foundation for later generations to add to that list as more intersections, more oppression, more expressions of queerness come to light.
It’s also deeply revealing of the flaws of the document - this single passage clearly illustrates that the Queer Nation founders were failing in their goals. They wrote that, but they also spoke of never wanting to see public displays of affection between the opposite sex (because apparently bi people wouldn’t be invented for a few more years). They spoke of making every space a “Gay and Lesbian” space, even after recognizing that trans people exist and are queer.  They failed to recognize the way violence plays out differently for some members of our community (in particular, PoC and trans women) than others. They explicitly mentioned fighting racism but went on to play Oppression Olympics with black people’s dead.
They were articulating an important concept, but they did so poorly. That doesn’t mean I can’t pick up the concept, dust it off, and improve it with a modern understanding. That doesn’t mean liberation isn’t worth fighting for. That doesn’t mean we have to give up on being proudly and defiantly queer.
You want to hold me to their worst failures, tell me I am not allowed to do better than this. And this makes sense - after all, you want to go back to the worst impulses of the very respectability politics they were rejecting, so why should anybody do better? But I refuse. I look to the future, and I want it to be better for all of us. I will do better. If I am not improving directly and noticeably on the work of those who came before me, I have failed.
