Burgeoning queer politics challenged the assumptions of a dominant gay male consumer community and exposed its limitations. In the eighties, consumer capitalism's embrace of a homogenized gay male market was disrupted by the AIDS pandemic. Bodies that economic interests had cautiously declared desirable were now considered diseased and contagious. Many of the men who experienced the ecstasies of formative disco have been lost to AIDS-related illnesses, and many of those still alive are now fighting for their bodily rights, denied by both repressive governments and multinational corporate interests. Today in the nineties, body and health rights activists prefer to deal from a distance with both governments and multinationals.
Activists are justifiably wary of potential cooptations.
Body and health activists are also aware of the degree to which financial inequities affect not only access but also leisure time available for activism. The very existence of money reinforces inequities. My suspicion is that money or capital would be a nemesis to any sort of egalitarian anarchy. Gary Kibbins's A Short History of Water imitates an academic slide-lecture to posit a hypothetical replacement of money by water as the global medium of exchange. Money, after superseding the barter system, quickly evolved from being a functional convenience of the exchange process to a medium with its own exchange values and thus desirable for its own sake.