In Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner’s essay titled, “Sex in Public”, the discussion of the LGBTQ+ community comes into play while talking about the heteronormative society. Right off the bat to start the second paragraph of this piece they write, “The aim of the essay is to describe what we want to promote as the radical aspirations of queer culture building: not just a safe zone for queer sex, but the changed possibilities of identity, intelligibility, publics, culture, and sex that appear when the heterosexual couple is no longer the referent or privileged example of sex culture”, which pretty much sets the baseline for this reading. The need to push the idea that heterosexuals are not the only way of life anymore and it needs to be embraced. Not only for queer people but for society as a whole to have an understanding that this is not always the “normal”. In scene one of their essays, the writers discuss a Time magazine cover in which the girl on it didn’t appear as the typical white female. She had a “new face”. They used this to appeal to the fact that we should no longer associate the typical “nuclear family” as the norm. We need to accept the fact that we are growing as a society so why would we reject people who don’t fit into this ideology that a white dominated society created? and why would we scrutinize anyone who wanted to do so even if we did not? The second scene was about when NYC Council passed the Zoning Text Amendment that “…covers adult book and video stores, eat and drinking establishments, theaters, and other businesses”. This meant that now people of the queer community now had their safe spaces almost completely taken from them which resulted in dangerous circumstances for them. So while trying to reconstruct the city, to make what they think is safer or better for all, they were actually destructing a community who had to fight for safe sex practices even before it was passed. People should be free to express themselves especially their sexuality, have the right to do that safely, and whether it be in private or public that is all the power to them. Remember to explore and be open to the possibilities outside the “normal” lives we have set up for ourselves because whether you know it or not, our intimate lives are out there in everyday life.