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Sarah Schulman: "Visibility was a construct that the gay
movement invented to explain and excuse the cruelty we experienced...We invented the idea it was an inadvertent consequence of a lack of information. 'If they would discover how we truly are, they would not want to hurt us.'"
Now, many natural and unavoidable mistakes have been made as the gay liberation movement tried to first grasp, then understand, and then convey the system of cruelty by heterosexuals toward homosexuals. The nature of this cruelty is hard to initially conceptualize because it is simultaneously pervasive, invisible, and deeply painful. The people who are doing it often don't know that they are doing it or pretend that they do not. The repetition and the dailiness make it seem normal. It is very difficult to try to imagine a life without this constant diminishment. And the depths ofits consequences coupled with its total lack ofjustification are alienating to fully realize. The reinscription of these cruelties within our own trusting, loving relationships is difficult to articulate, because there is no place to do so. When review- ing our errors of understatement, they seem innocent, childlike. How sad that so many of our oversimplifications were caused by our love and trust of other human beings, and our consequent inability to understand how they could be so ruthless in exploiting their advantages over us. All of this converges on the question of visibilityl Visibility was a construct that the gay and lesbian movement invented to explain and excuse the cruelty we were experiencing. We denied that it was intentional. Instead, we invented the idea that it was an inadvertent consequence of heterosexuals having a lack of information about what we are really like. "If they would discover how We truly are, they would not want to hurt uS. And since they were doing everything imaginable, using every social institution to make it impossi- ble for us to be truly seen, We would have to subject ourselves to extreme
December 2, 2024 at 11:14 PM