“The idealized queer body is both sexually consumed and coveted within queer spaces and by actors who seek to profit from it. It seems that both queer people and those outside of the community fail to prioritize the rights and safety of those at risk when inconvenient to do so. This act of commodification treats those affected as though they are cattle raised for the consumption of others, otherwise expendable within heteronormative culture.

Queer people have seemingly been placed on a chopping block, useless to the platforms of the right-wing politicians who seek to erase all forms of queerness. Violent responses regarding queerness, by those who hold fragile power, are the result of a capitalistic need to scapegoat and shift public blame away from socio-political and economic issues.”