Cultural assimilation

"Arguments for inclusion produce the very exclusions they are meant to cure. ... The question that cannot be uttered is, just how different can these different folks be and still be recognized as just like everyone else?"

"Assimilationist politics, ... according to its critics, looks to expand the definition of normal to include lesbians and gays, rather than attacking and undermining the very processes by which (some) subjects become normalized and others marginalized."