EVIDENCE: ELEANOR WEBBER

‘K & me (on a rainy day)

By: Eleanor Weber

The first ad says “it's time” for marriage equality, yet only at the expense of placing

homosexual relationships into an easily digestible format: namely, a normative, necessarily

middle-class one.

The second proposes something more immediately offensive to our tastes but in the same

move exposes one blatant – and powerful – reality about why homosexuality is

unacceptable to many people: queer sexualties are an inherent challenge to state

institutions such as marriage, which are founded on the idea of normative identity (which

needless to say they cannot and do not live up to).

Surely it is not the queerness that should change – as the first ad seems to propose – but

the state's modes of encompassing queerness?

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