ABSTRACT
In this article, I have suggested that some of the easy familiarities that antihomophobic work settles into falsely split the problematic of sexuality and schooling into a set of bald oppositions that reconsolidate a focus on binarized sexuality, thereby minimizing its capacity to include sexual practices, perspectives, and identifications which emerge in spite of such routine dichotomization. Moreover, the cultural politics of antihomophobia regularly falls into a more generalized campaign for safety. The rationale for this shift toward safety framing the debate can be understood, in part, by the attraction of advocates of sexual difference to the ways in which trading an explicitly politicized approach with an often avowedly antipolitical focus on safety makes available to those advocates the moral advantage of being an identifiable victimized minority in the context of a critiqued heterosexual hegemony.
