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Shane Phelan: Sexual Strangers

Shane Phelan: Sexual Strangers

USA 2001, 179 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Is the U.S. a heterosexual regime? If it is, how may we understand the political position of those who cannot or will not align themselves with hetero sexuality? With these provocative questions, Shane Phelan raises the issue of whether lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people can be seen as citizens at all. Can citizenship be made queer? Or does citizenship require the exclusion of those who are regarded as queer to preserve the »equality« that it promises? The author argues that, in the U.S., queers are strangers - not exactly the enemy, since they are not excluded from all rights of citizenship, but not quite members. Rather, they are ambiguous figures who trouble the border between »us« and »them«, a border just as central to liberal regimes as to other states. Life on this border structures both the exclusion of sexual minorities and their ambivalence about becoming part of the »mainstream«. Phelan looks at citizenship as including not only equal protection and equal rights to such institutions as marriage and military service, but also political and cultural visibility, as inclusion in the national imaginary. She discusses the continuing stigmatization of bisexuals and transgendered people within lesbian and gay communities as a result of the attempt to flee from strangeness - a flight that inevitably produces new strangers.
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