Against Equality: Ban Marriage

Currently on a discussion tour in the US are contributors to Against Marriage: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, a new book published by the Against Equality collective.
There's quite a good piece on them in Chicago's Windy City News.
"People ask, 'How can you possibly be against equality? That's like being against rainbows ... and all things good?'" Yasmin Nair is quoted as saying.
"[But] equality... What does equality mean and how has it been used and deployed over the years to signify anything good and grandiose and progressive? A lot of people say 'progressives' and 'gays' as if they mean the same thing. But what we're contending in this book is that, no, what constitutes the gay movement today is actually the gay right. It's a deeply conservative movement."
"What you get in the 1990s is a break, as it were, for the gay community. You get a rise in the professional, upper middle class of gay people. You also get, at the same time, is this breakdown in the notion of a public sexual culture; so you see Times Square being cleaned out and Disney-fied, for example. And the two things actually come together: a gay professional class and a de-sexing of queer culture (and straight life as well).
"So you get this conservatism. You get gay people who think Aids is over; in fact, it's not... What starts to happen is that there's this idea that 'gay' is a class identity. People have this stereotype: They think that [gays] are all rich and have the picket-fence lifestyle.
"And within that framework of this change, you get marriage coming in. Marriage becomes the ultimate form of respectability..."
The book should soon be available to order in the UK from AK Press.

• And, as if by magic, here are The Hidden Cameras performing 'Ban Marriage'