god forbid you have to live in non-normative ways to be queer
to expand on this i was linked this thread about the new Pope: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3loqu4up47k2q
and i think it gives me words for what I'm complaining about here, being effectively a strain of "evangelical queers". the ever-more-common idea that being queer is something you have ("faith") instead of something you do ("works")
@Lady looking at the google books summary of this, i think that it'll be a nice follow-up to gay new york when i finish that (which covers the shift towards "homosexuality" as a term, from older models, among other things)
@Lady i will definitely check it out! thank you