Comments for Familial homophobia: Interview with Sarah Schulman at http://www.thescavenger.net , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.thescavenger.net Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:00:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thescavenger.net/glbsgdq/familial-homophobia-interview-with-sarah-schulman-135.html#comment-18 How good it is to read and relate to some excellent thinking! Every point Sarah makes is so important and I look forward to reading her book. In particular, I remember Act-Up and completely understand and agree on how a multi-front approach to acceptance (not benevolence) could work. Furthermore, Sara has really articulated another beneficial aspect of marriage equality: Accountability. The only way we uphold principles and values is by behaviour. My experience is that relational unaccountability in the gay community is an accepted, thriving, unspoken and unchallenged behaviour. The principles and values embodied by marriage equality at law greatly influences our everyday behavior in the way we treat each other. So what if the cause of poor behaviour stems from the "we're all victims of victims" learned behaviour? Unaccountability isn't acceptable behaviour and if we are to ask the straight community for what we want, shouldn't we first be able to ask it of and uphold it ourselves? Thank you Katrina. - Janet Syms Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:36:58 +0100