#tim dean

Nobody is born into or inherits queer culture: it becomes one’s ‘own’ culture only through modes of invention and appropriation. A young homosexual always has to play the role of amateur anthropologist, piecing together the beliefs, practices, and texts of his or her erotic culture adventitiously, often without much formal guidance.

"The socio-erotic economy he envisions under gay communism is about not sexual identity but erotic abundance, a world in which artificial sexual scarcity would be unknown. Based on a liberationist model of queer sexuality, Mieli drastically redefines communism as ‘the rediscovery of bodies and their fundamental communicative function, their polymorphous potential for love’."