A Quote by Bruce LaBruce

There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

Bruce LaBruce

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Bruce LaBruce
Canadian - Writer
Born: January 3, 1964

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In order to promote your own career, you need to promote the careers of others.

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Jason Jones

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

Dalai Lama

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Zoe Weil

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Henry Giroux

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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?

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