yes, absolutely. agree that they were originally one of the ways that queerness was literally criminalized up until recently. the question for me is whether they could function in that same targeted way again in this day and age. like, in my head, it's one thing to keep an old law on the books and use it to discriminate, but I think it takes a lot more inertia to write a new law that, as written, would technically not be targeted.
My recollection is that it was effectively or explicitly illegal to be queer in the United States leading up to Stonewall (as well as in other countries, but outside the US is a whole other matter entirely). Do you know what legal frameworks more explicitly drove that? Am I misremembering/mistaken?
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yes, absolutely. agree that they were originally one of the ways that queerness was literally criminalized up until recently. the question for me is whether they could function in that same targeted way again in this day and age. like, in my head, it's one thing to keep an old law on the books and use it to discriminate, but I think it takes a lot more inertia to write a new law that, as written, would technically not be targeted.
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ah, TIL!
My recollection is that it was effectively or explicitly illegal to be queer in the United States leading up to Stonewall (as well as in other countries, but outside the US is a whole other matter entirely). Do you know what legal frameworks more explicitly drove that? Am I misremembering/mistaken?
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