I'm a queer who opposes assimilationist politics and the institution of marriage, militarism, capitalism, and so on. As a result, I really enjoyed this collection.

I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because some of the essays were really lacking in understanding of the nuances that go into queer relationships, privilege, and marriage. While the most privileged groups have advocated most for gay marriage and wasted resources, many underprivileged people choose marriage in order to keep their kids or to not be forced to testify against one another in court (a very big benefit of marriage that is never mentioned). So, in a way, it takes a bit of privilege in some situations to also decry that gay marriage should not only not get all of our resources, but that it should not exist at all- something I disagree with. Some of us can't wait until capitalism and heteropatriarchy falls in order to obtain whatever means of survival we can grasp on to. I believe all of those rights should be available to people outside the institution of marriage, but sometimes we make concessions for survival and that is what I find lacking in the privilege analyses.

Also, the article talking about queers not being illegal but undocumented folks are, they're both illegal. There are still laws banning "cross dressing," the use of bathrooms, homosexual acts, and various other things that queer folks, privileged and non, are engaged in, (and it negatively affects queer undocumented people doubly) so I found what could have been a very intersectionally sound article to be written from a place lacking understanding of queer experience of these kinds of law based oppressions that many of us have suffered (that ain't about marriage).

Kenyon Farrow's "Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black??" was my favorite in the anthology.