The Politics of Same Sex Marriage

Jonathan Sterne in Bad Subjects

My fear is that debates and crusades around same-sex marriage (and lesbians and gays in the military before that) have obscured the real promise of queer politics: a society where people have maximum freedom of personal affiliation, where they can choose to configure their lives in a wide variety of ways, and where everyone has access to the "goodies" that come with institutions like marriage, without having to conform to their values.