A thoughtful and thought provoking piece by Michael W. Hannon, who agrees with “poststructuralist queer theorists in their vigorous critiques of the naive orientation essentialists”. First of all, within orientation essentialism, the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality is a construct that is dishonest about its identity as a construct. These classifications masquerade as natural categories, applicable to all people in all times and places according to the typical objects of