July 7, 2026
What does queer mean? One takeaway from a quick review of—mostly negative—responses to Matthew Vines’s recent post for The New York Times, “I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters,” is that people are very confused about what the term queer means.
Matthew Vines's New York Times essay argues that "queer" endangers gay rights. Drawing on David Halperin's account of gayness as identity, culture, and desire, I argue that the problem is not queerness. It's a politics that trades the dignity of others for approval.
Tony Hoshaw is writing a book, in public, entitled Gay Desire: A Second Chance for Gay Theology. Building on David M. Halperin's book, How To Be Gay, Tony argues that the proper ground for gay theology is gay desire, not a theory of androgyny.
July 7, 2026
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