Weapons of Mass Seduction

Under an even more Trump-than-Trump president — the  bombastic Karen Blare — the United States is waging a  “culture war” against its new enemy: woke Canada.  Determined to win the fight without casualties (or  headlines), Blare demands a new kind of non-lethal  weapon. Her loyal but dim-witted General Fardmann has  the perfect idea: resurrect the long-rumored “Gay Bomb.” 

To make it work, they must thaw out Professor. Victor  Vexx — a brilliant, genderfluid chemical weapons scientist  frozen since the summer of love in 67 — and assign CIA  agent Valerie Steele to keep them in check. But as Vexx  sets their sights on sparking a queer revolution from  within, Blare’s administration prepares to test the bomb  on a small conservative Southern town. When the plan  leaks, chaos erupts. Glitter flies, loyalties shift, and the  battle lines between repression and liberation blur in an  explosion of camp, color, and chemical warfare. 

This piece detonates a glittery critique of military  machismo, political hypocrisy, and homophobia —  flipping the script so that queer people aren’t the victims  of the system, but the ones who joyfully, fabulously, and  furiously blow it up from the inside.