“Every person who comes to a queer self-understanding knows in one way or another that her stigmatization is connected with gender, the family, notions of individual freedom, the state, public speech, consumption and desire, nature and culture, maturation, reproductive politics, racial and national fantasy, class identity, truth and trust, censorship, intimate life and social display, terror and violence, health care, and deep cultural norms about the bearing of the body. . “Being queer means fighting about these issues all of the time, locally and piecemeal but always with consequences.” - Michael Warner, “Fear of a Queer Planet,” 1993