wp has an article Queer radicalism. I strongly suspect (from the piece about E.M. Forster) it means forcibly ‘outing’ people (against their will or after their death/against their express wishes) to try to make their sexual orientation the most prominent fact about them. To put that another way: to belittle all their life’s achievements. My LGBT personal friends are horrified by the idea – even though there’s no longer any legal consequences. They have family who still wouldn’t cope with the shock.
You know how wp has all those lists:
- Hungarian mathematicians – such extraordinary insights, you’d think there must be something in the culture;
- Jewish mathematicians – ditto;
- Jewish American Computer Scientists even, incl John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Barbara Liskov and plenty other Turing award winners.
- John von Neumann manages to be not only Jewish but also a " Hungarian-American computer scientist, mathematician and economist" (and polyglot, twice married, two kids), and rightfully gets equal billing for the Turing-Von Neumann architecture.
Well for LGBT Mathematicians[**], wp has only a category not a list; and no LGBT computer scientists.
Like that.
[**] Including poor Richard Montague, originator of a kind of Combinator grammar, who features just as prominently in wp’s list of Unsolved Murders. Who I’m sure would much rather be remembered for (say) his contributions to ZFC Set Theory.