This news from India (as reported in The Guardian) is inspiring, especially considering the the names attached to the pro-queer alliance of authors and other cultural figures. They are trying to oveturn an old Victorian-era law that criminalizes homosexual acts.

One thing jumped out at me, though. I'll quote the passage and then comment:
"In an open letter, more than 100 influential signatories, including the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen, the Booker prizewinner Arundhati Roy, and author Vikram Seth, said the law had been used to "systematically persecute, blackmail, arrest and terrorise sexual minorities" and had spawned intolerance."

Let's consider what is meant by "sexual minorities." Sure, there are less queer-identified people in any given nation than there are non-queer identified folk, and in that sense we are minorities, but where do we draw the line between queer and not-queer? And the big question: What is QUEER sex? What kind of sex makes you a minority--the kind you enjoy?

It seems to me the conservatism that seeks to oppress us is also concerned with oppressing all kinds of sexual expression--not just the queer variety. Conservatism seeks to halt sex education and replace it with abstinence-only education. It yearns to keep us not only from the dildo store, but also from discussing our fantasies in any format by sounding the pornography alarms. Never mind the fact that if it were okay for us to discuss sex more openly, there would probably be a lot less porn.