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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Homosex. 2022 Jun 14;70(13):3024–3050. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2086749

Table 1:

Two axes of theory for the gay right

Gays have political interests qua gays Homonormativity
Gays should/do not have unique or distinct interests
Gay interests are identical to the right’s interests Gay as extreme
- Systems Justification Theory
- Homo-supremacy
Assimilation
Gay interests align with the right, but for uniquely gay reasons Homonational rhetoric
- Freedom with Violence
Gay interests are relatively unimportant for politics Tension
- Additive intersectionality
- Identity integrators
Post-gay
- Beyond the closet
- Identity centaurs