The Religious Queer: The Discourse on the Western Gay Politics And How Religion Is Implicated Within

Reflecting upon my being a practicing Catholic while also being queer at the same time, which I recounted in my previous post entitled:  The Catholic, The Queer, and Probably an Unbeliever Too?, made me think of the discourse on the Western Gay Politics into which I was introduced while still in the graduate school. According to this discourse, the Western societies – unlike the differently developed societies – are modern and progressive because the historically marginalised subjects such as women and queers in these societies are liberated from subjugations. The de-secularisation of the Western societies that has taken place in the second half of the 21^st century – according to many scholars both in social sciences and the humanities – proved to be quite favourable towards those who have been hitherto marginalized and excluded from the norms of heteronormative masculinity.