There has arguably never been a better time to be LGBT. The youth of today are experiencing a wave of acceptance that was not felt in our grandparents, or even our parents, generation. Everywhere you look people are talking about it; the “It Gets Better” project, Caitlin Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair, the historic Supreme Court ruling in which it was decided 5-4 that individual states must recognize the marriages of same-sex couples, and even in sociology. Sociologists studying homosexuality isn’t new, but according to two sociologists from the University of Essex in England, what is new is a type of intellectual movement within the humanities called “the queer theory.” In Arlene Stein and Ken Plummer’s article “I Can’t Even Think Straight”
