Hey, everybody. It's James Lindsay. You're listening to the New Discourses podcast. And, you know,

the rumor is that I don't punch left. I only punch right these days. So I want to cover something

very important. I've been trying to find this again. I knew I had seen it, but it's been a long

time and I managed to find it again.

In some sense, this is arguably a document, which is an anonymous document.

It was a leaflet that was distributed at the Pride March in New York in June of 1990,

and is arguably the beginning point, the true beginning point, you could talk about Stonewall or whatever, but the true beginning point of the queer militancy movement, which is part of the queer liberation movement, which is part of the queer activism movement that is all informed by queer theory. So this is a piece in the chain linking

queer theory to the situation of queer militancy that we're all talking about now and that we

all see shooting schools, doing other forms of violence, threatening violence, even including

the horrific murder assassination

of my friend Charlie Kirk. So maybe it's worth dredging up this anonymous leaflet, which is

titled nothing other than Queers Read This.

And like I said, it's a leaflet distributed at a Pride March in New York City published anonymously by, quote, Queers in June of 1990.

So that's, for those of you, keeping square at home 35 years ago.

A little context before we dive into this.

I just want to kind of touch on why queer theory

lends itself to violence, even though queer theory itself, if you go read Judith Butler and

so on, is not terribly invested in the idea of violence. And there are a number of reasons that

I think bear mentioning.

One of these reasons is that none of the woke left theories exist in isolation any longer.

I don't know that they ever did, but certainly since the early 2000s, they have not.

They have been braided together in different threads braided together at different times. Certainly, since the early 2000s, they have not.

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