we're here, we're queer vs the professional glbts [View all]

[msongs]

Here is what I have learned working with gay youth and young adults who are politically oriented.
the stonewall riots were a bunch of self identified queers fighting against oppression by the mafia, the cops, and the professional homosexuals hiding under their beds and in their closets. And don't kid yourself - the the deeply closeted crowd wished the queers would shut up and quit rocking the boat, for their own selfish security reasons.
Many people, especially young people, now choose to identify as queer or other similar phrases, which is their right. Still the professional homosexuals (now called gay, a term in little use in the Stonewall era) don't like it - it makes them mad because some people are not submitting to the only way and the true path. Well democracy can be messy sometimes. The oppressors don't care what the oppressed call themselves so long as the oppressed slug it out for which group is the least oppressed and what kind of language the subgroups can use to self identify.
and btw, Self identifying as queer is not equivalent to shacking up with the log cabin crowd, because log cabinuts are identifying with and advocating for their oppressors, while self identified queer youth seek to claim the name as a step on their path out of suppression.
There is more to gay liberation than posting pinups of half-nude pretty boys in your favorite internet gay group or forum and voting which one is world's most perfect hunk.
Indeed.