ABSTRACT
In an article entitled ‘Deconstructing Queer Theory or the Under-Theorization of the Social and Ethical’, Steven Seidman writes:
Queer theorists are positioned to become a substantial force in shaping lesbian and gay intellectual culture. Frequently unified by generation and by academic affiliation, sharing a culture based in common conceptual and linguistic practices, and capturing the spirit of discontent toward both the straight mainstream and the lesbian and gay mainstream, queer theory is an important social force in the making of gay intellectual culture and politics in the 1990s. (1995, 123)
