indefinability, unknowability, the preposterous, impossibility, unthinkability, unintelligibility, meaninglessness and that which is unrepresentable or incommunicable.… The erotics of thinking, speaking, writing, listening and reading is a chief concern.48 It is evident from this description that queer theory is located within the wider postmodern cultural impulse. In terms of religio-philosophical moorings, queer theory, similar to the poststructuralism/deconstructionism that inspired it, is most