TY - JOUR AU - Smilges, John PY - 2018/07/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - "Healthy Sexuality": “It’s not gay or bad, it’s SSAD": Queerness and Masquerade JF - Canadian Journal of Disability Studies JA - CJDS VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.15353/cjds.v7i2.426 UR - https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/426 SP - 100-122 AB - <p class="BodyA"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: windowtext;">Many ex-gays claim to be part of a marginalized group: the disability community. They claim that their homoerotic desires are indicative of mental illness and thus make them disabled. This essay explores the implications of this claimed disability. Given the context of a growing desire for queer-crip coalition work, how does the existence of ex-gays affects our theorization of disability and sexuality, pushing us to be more aware of the messiness of identity politics?</span></p> ER -