LGBTQ activism in the twentieth-century United States has long been characterized by a tension between liberal and radical forms of politics. Should LGBTQ people respond to their exclusion from a heteronormative state and society by demanding formal equality and inclusion in existing structures? Or should they use their marginalized status as a basis from which to mount a radical critique of capitalism, the state, and the family? In The Queerness of Home, Stephen Vider suggests that this account of LGBTQ history offers a false opposition. Tracing the shifting meanings of queer domesticity over the course of the evolution of LGBTQ identity, community, and politics in the postwar United States, Vider shows that LGBTQ people have at times sought inclusion in normative ideals of what he terms domestic citizenship, and at times imagined the home as a site of radical resistance to such norms. But more often, he suggests,...
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