METHOD a paper, incorporating autobiography and research MY RESEARCH QUESTION/S How do our expectations or needs of texts affect our perceptions of them? What can this tell us about our understandings of ourselves, and of self? THIS PROJECT MATTERS TO ME AND MAYBE OTHERS BECAUSE: I have had this Pollyanna notion that if only LGBTQ folks knew about all the interesting queer art with queer political ideas exists, and engaged with it, they’d embrace this work and receive the messages it contained; and they’d simultaneously let go of some of the more mainstream homonormative, class consciousness work that is widely …