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@apisashla I mean, I ain't read the book so can't make any final judgments of course but I have a lot of smoke for someone being so dismissive of "activists" and their focus on "intersectionality" being a huge mistake.

If he's going to refer to queer theorists and queer history and pretend that idpol represents bourgeois domains of thought, where is the accounting for the work of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson in forming the GLF? Their work on creating STAR and their coalition building with the Panthers and the Young Lords? Their undoubtedly socialist focus on housing, financial support, community building, and political education?

He even alludes to the class issues with marriage equality, but hasn't got anything to say about the rift in the queer community between gay assimilationists and trans radicals that split the gay movement AS IT WAS FORMING.

I get that the point of his research is specific and not solely devoted to history, obvs. But if he's gonna be shooting his mouth off about identity politics while trying to refocus us on a class analysis, then he needs to account for the people in the queer movement he has such scorn for who have been doing that actual work for decades.