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Der Verfasser gibt eine Einführung in die Wurzeln und die Entwicklung des Queer Movement in den USA in den 1990er Jahren und beschreibt Queer als radikales linkes Projekt. Er diskutiert die zentralen Punkte der Queer-Theory in Hinblick auf die Etablierung sexueller Standards und die Behandlung von Abweichungen und fragt, wie das Queer Movement in Deutschland in akademischen und politischen Kreisen aufgenommen worden ist. Abschließend werden fünf Punkte in Hinblick auf die theoretische und politische Weiterentwicklung von Queer formuliert, wobei ein kritischer, anti-neoliberaler Blick auf die Standardisierung von Geschlecht und Sexualität geworfen wird. (ICEÜbers)

This article argues that, in contradistinction to its widely promoted ethical openness to its future, queer theory has been less scrupulous about its messy, flexible and multiple relations to its pasts, the critical and activist traditions from which it emerged and that continue to develop alongside in mutually informing ways. In particular, it assesses queer theory's tangled, productive and ongoing relations with feminist theory. Returning to the controversial analytic separation of gender and sexuality that has been prominently theorized as key to distinguishing between feminist and queer theoretical projects, the article traces the influence of Gayle Rubin's `Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality' through feminist and queer scholarship in order to demonstrate that, however different their projects, feminist theory and queer theory together have a stake in both desiring and articulating the complexities of the traffic between gender and sexuality.

Abstract
The author explores how current disciplinary conditions force trans studies against queer theory: Because queer theory is the institutional context through which trans studies is invited into the university, it is also the containing ideological architecture against which trans studies must articulate itself. Trans studies is therefore pressed "against" queer theory as a discursive surface in a manner that limits it from being able to exit this disciplinary scenario.