The End of Straight Supremacy appears in the second decade of the twenty-first century – a particularly dangerous time for Gay people. The “will to forget” that Guy Hocquenghem spoke of in an interview in the Gay Community News in 1980 is at work today in new and newly frightening ways. Gay people have been particularly good at forgetting what is painful. Given the reality of the pain, it’s hard really to resent this coping mechanism. But it has made Gays particularly vulnerable to new forms of oppression. The unique danger of today is that we are continually being erased even as we are told we are being acknowledged. Sometimes this erasure is merely conceptual, a sapping of our community and energy through assimilation. Sometimes it is physical: Sometimes we are killed. Conceptual and physical erasure are forms of violence against us – a violence that is systematic, not random; calculatedly political, not casual; continuous, not episodic. Gay people in recent years have experienced an escalation in this violence. And we are tired. We are tired of being hated. It is easier to close our eyes. To dream. To forget.