Symbolized objects and signified identities

In Queer objects to the rescue, George Paul Meiu provides a very apt summary of what the entire book is about, stating thus:Pursuing objects, I show how political imaginaries of intimacy and citizenship are not always tied to something readily recognizable as "sex" or "sexuality."Nor do they always pertain to common sexualized targets of state exclusion, such as the homosexual, the prostitute, the transgender person, the refugee, the immigrant, or the terrorist.Rather, sexuality-rescue projects, including anti-homosexuality campaigns, also work through-that is, disguise themselves in, build on, and borrow from-anxieties over and aspirations related to objects.To understand and critique the politics of homophobia, I suggest, it is important to take these objects seriously.(p.8)