Pomosexual

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A portmanteau of pomo, short for postmodernism, and sexual, used as a noun—a person who shuns labels (e.g., heterosexual and homosexual, which define people by their sexual preferences)—and as an adjective, referring to such a person or to the philosophy of pomosexuality

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Others have referred to it as "queerdom's own ironic social theory, which developed to let us criticize (particularly heterocentrist) relations of power." Carol Queen & Lawrence Schimel, Introduction to POMOSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY 19, 21 (Carol Queen & Lawrence Schimel eds., 1997).

Foreword: "you are entering a gay and lesbian free zone" (1): on the radical dissents of Justice Scalia and other (post-) queers

Schimel (Eds.), Pomosexuals: Challenging assumptions about gender and sexuality (.pp.

The experiences of transgendered persons in psychotherapy: voices and recommendations

reprinted in PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND

Racing the closet

1 (New York: Vintage Books, 1990); Carol Queen & Lawrence Schimel, eds., PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997).