Infinite Queerness and American Settler Colonialism

What the LGBTQ rights movement needs, especially with regard to legal challenges, is a lasting philosophical shift toward the idea that justice and equality are an infinite game rather than a finite and pragmatic one. This work here will explore why this posture is favorable at this moment—and generally in civil rights work. Beyond connecting queer sacrifice in recent Supreme Court cases to the functioning and maintenance of the American settler colonial project, this Article will posit why a strategy shift toward infinite thinking is increasingly necessary for more resolute work that results in the autonomy and equality of LGBTQ individuals and initiates a different form of settler decolonization than the one that is always expected. First, Part I will locate modern LGBTQ rights litigation as part of the American settler colonial project. Then Part II will observe the limits and finiteness of LGBTQ rights progress after marriage equality as a moment of queer sacrifice and what that means. And lastly, Part III will propose that prescriptively, to accomplish lasting, decolonizing work in the American settler state, the idea of infinite thinking must be adopted. Adopting an infinite game strategy would help obtain a decolonizing process that allows queerness and sexual pluralism to flourish. This abstract has been taken from the author's introduction.