ABSTRACT
In the early 1990s, the queer political action group, “The Lesbian Avengers,” distributed a pamphlet on “The Homosexual Agenda for America,” echoing an important slogan of the religious right. More serious than minor mismatches between the British and American experience is the “in-process” feel to some of the contributions, likely a product of their origin as conference talks. Leonore Tiefer picks up this examination of phallic power and its relationship to the unreliable penis in her essay on public management of male impotence. From her perspective as a clinical sexologist, she describes the limitations of the medical mode of sexuality. Sexual revolution, properly understood, is deeply threatening to the established order because it requires “the pursuit of justice in the whole sphere of social life, ending the patterns of oppression and domination that are found across this sphere”.
