This article examines the creation of queer heterotopias and critiques the attempts by academics and well-intentioned activists to define, redefine, and stabilize queerness in order to appropriate, clarify, and perpetuate queer subjectivity for a political agenda centered around "fighting for one's rights." The current disciplining of queerness through hetero- and homonormative logics is not conducive to the creation of queer heterotopias. Practicing queerness in everyday life should have less to do with a clearly defined political agenda and more to do with the spiritual journey that individuals undertake. The paper then examines the process of becoming queer in relation to Gilles Deleuze's thought. These are places where actors, whether academics or activists, participate in radical politics of subversion where individuals seek to destabilize normative configurations of biological sex, gender, and sexuality through everyday exploration and experimentation with queer identity formation. ABSTRACT: The author invokes Michel Foucault to examine the creation of "queer heterotopias" as they are understood in his article, that is, as material spaces in which various radical practices are unregulated.
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