one of the most interesting developments in identity politics emerging from this insight has been queer politics. this has developed from lesbian and gay politics; but queer politics resists the division of sexuality into a binary opposition of essentialist homosexual or heterosexual identities. instead, judith butler (1993) argues that identities are the products of the discourses (p.30) that define sexuality.we perform masculinity or femininity homosexuality or heterosexuality according to a script alrea the cultural written as the cultural conventions of our society. in this view identities are cultural construction rather than pre-set.