Our aff is a performance about me (Roger) and my coming out experience.
The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance … Oh yeah! Democracy assistance! I want to spread my democracy everywhere! You bet your ass I love this topic. for one or more of the following: Bahrain[us], E-just-the-tip’t, Lube-ya, Rear-ya, Tranysia, and … Yemen. O_M_G!!! … It’s like an orgy, so many to choose from. I want them all! Let’s all share our democracy!
Status quo queer politics has created an idealized white male queer which ignores the complexities that exist in queerness. This form of politics has served to reinforce a system where queer youth and queer kids of colors are left without hope. José Esteban Muñoz writes
(José Esteban the chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts “Cruising the Toilet LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13.2-3 (2007) 353-367 Project Muse RC)
Edelman's critique of the editorial, [...] accept that which is not enough.
Amber Hollibaugh writes …
For many involved, desire and sexual play offered emancipatory possibilities, which could incite social unrest, create change, unite the diverse masses, and more importantly produce pleasure. Sometimes I want to play, resist, fight. . . I can't imagine sex without this. ... I want to redistribute that power and knowledge . . .
And the playful act of the 1AC is not just a self-indulgent strategy but rather is a political act that attempts to create cracks for openness within the community and becomes a cultural turning point for queer politics. Benjamin Shepard writes …
(Benjamin Shepard, PhD assistant professor of Human Services at New York School of Technology/City University of New York “Queer Political Performance and Protest 2010 page 43-44 RC)
The ambitions of a gay liberation [...] body with the universe around you.
The ballot should be used as an alignment for those who oppose gendered and queer oppression to create an open space for coming out.
The failure to create an open space for individuals to come out of the closet makes oppression inevidable as they have to give up their identity in order to survive. They are forced to normalize their queer bodies making queer bodies nothing more then heteronormative. Gust Yep writes …
(Gust A., Ph.D., Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, “The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies: Notes on Injury, Healing, and Queer World-Making”, Journal of Homosexuality 45:2-4, pp. 11-59. Project Muse RC)
Heteronormativity is ubiquitous in all spheres [...] gender, and sexual- ity.
