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4 Law & Sexuality: Rev. Lesbian & Gay Legal Issues 83 (1994)
Queer Intersectionality and the Failure of Recent Lesbian and Gay "Victories"

handle is hein.journals/lsex4 and id is 87 raw text is: QUEER INTERSECTIONALITY AND THE FAILURE OF RECENT LESBIAN AND GAY VICTORIES DARREN ROSENBLUM* INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 84 I. QUEERTHEOR S ........................................................................ 86 A. Queer as a Category ............................................... 86 B. Queer Intersectionality ................................................. 88 C. The Queer Continuum ................................................. 90 1. Inclusion ........................................................... 91 2. Identification ................................................... 91 3. Nonerasure and Intersectionality .................... 92 4. Empowerment ................................................. 93 D. Litigation and the Limits of Liberalism ....................... 93 II. QUEER VICrORES? ........................................................................ 94 A. Queer Legal Needs ...................................................... 95 B. Lesbian and Gay Victories ....................... 96 1. Braschi v. Stahl Assoc. ................................... 96 2. In the Matter of the Adoption of Evan ............ 97 3. M.A.B. v. R.B ................................................... 99 4. Thomas S. v. Robin Y ........................................ 100 C. Queer Critiques .............................................................. 102 1. Poor Queers ........................................................ 103 2. Queers of Color .................................................. 106 3. Sexual Subversives ............................................ 107 4. Gender Subversives ........................................... 113 * B.A., 1991, J.D. 1995, University of Pennsylvania. This Essay was originally written for Professor Kendall Thomas in conjunction with a Law and Sexuality class he taught with Professor Evan Wolfson at Columbia Law School. Studying with Professor Ruthann Robson at CUNY Law School brought me toward a critical perspective of lesbian and gay legal issues. Professor Susan Sturm's unfailing support has proven essential in my intellectual development. I am grateful to these professors for their guidance as well as to Robert Cordell, Alys I. Cohen, Mary A. Inman, Marc Stein, and Professor Barbara Bennett Woodhouse. Finally, I thank my parents, Edward and Susan Rosenblum, for their constant encouragement. I dedicate this Essay to Pascal de Duve, French writer (1964-1993), who always remained ivre de vivre (drunk with life) despite the onslaught of AIDS. His boundless creativity and strength will always inspire me to, in the words of Marne Dennis, live, live, live! 83

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