December 20, (1993): 17-35. 13 Liza Featherstone, "The Joy of Sex." The Nation. Volume 257, Number 10 (1993): 360-363. communities, the military is one of those places. So it is a very complicated and highly charged issue. It is complicated. Paul Berman12 suggests that the possibility of a majority gay and lesbian politics of conservatism is heralded by the example of the demand for dropping the gay ban in the American military. Such a demand for democracy by "gayocrats" leads Berman to suggest that the dream of gay liberation is derived from the larger dream of American liberty (31), although a patriotic and nationalistic gay-enhanced armed force is anathema to a gay liberation movement. Berman asks about the April 1993 march on Washington: "[m]aybe the uniformed military gays waving from the podium were the agents of imperialism, or maybe they were the sword and shield of American-style individual freedom, and who could say?" (31). It is this tension between notions of liberty which serves to highlight contradictions and conflicts within the gay liberation movement. Political conservatism goes hand-in-hand with a notion of the liberty or freedom of the individual at the same time as it requires a commitment to an idea of national liberty, or freedom to determine national ideals. It is at the level of nationalism that the gay liberation movement splits into a multiple politic(s) of difference(s). Andrew Kopkind calls this "the gay moment." The lesbian or gay person in this debate is in an extremely complex position. And the reality that the military in the 1990s is also a job path for the working-class. I'd now like to ask you for your thoughts on what could be called the lesbian and/or queer politics of sexuality. Featherstone 13 in her review of Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation14 finds its contributors positioned "at the center of a lesbian sexual revolutionary moment, as the articulate voices of a rising generation of pro-sex queer girls" (361). She refers to Soloman 15 who describes a "ne