Leo Bersani in his well-known book Homos (1996) examines queer theory in the formulation of the anti-social thesis. Bersani acknowledges the dangers involved in any kind of group identification such as queer individuals and his prologue begins by discussing the danger he sees in queer theory by discussing that ‘perhaps inherent in gay desire is a revolutionary inaptitude for heteroized sociality. This of course means sociality as we know it, and the most politically disruptive aspect of the homo-ness I will be exploring in gay desire is a redefinition of sociality so radical that it may appear to require a provisional withdrawal from relationality itself’ (Bersani, 1996: 7). Thus, both Bersani and Edelman’s desires are that queer individual’s
