From bourgeois perspective, LGBTQIA people are specialty menu items for consumption. Keeping the majority of them oppressed, isolated, and precarious keeps them in accessible supply for exploitation and then disposal, leaving the satisfied consumer free to return to their respectable family life. The neoliberal turn has come with the innovation of allowing LGBTQIA assimilationist tokens to gain high profile, to pacify and demobilize queer liberation, while the exploitative dynamic remains intact overall.
From bourgeois perspective, LGBTQIA people are specialty menu items for consumption. Keeping the majority of them oppressed, isolated, and precarious keeps them in accessible supply for exploitation and then disposal, leaving the satisfied consumer free to return to their respectable family life. The neoliberal turn has come with the innovation of allowing LGBTQIA assimilationist tokens to gain high profile, to pacify and demobilize queer liberation, while the exploitative dynamic remains intact overall.