Ultimately, the problems that a gay person faces in society are external, not internal, and any potion that may change the internal chemistry of gay identity will not cure the disorders of homophobia and heterosexism. Foucault's Productive Power and the Radicalness of Everyday Life Foucault seems to be another Nietzsche, setting power at the basis of all human relationships. Foucault's power runs back and forth between people, enabling them to act against great trends in society through small acts in their behavior. His dynamic model is thus a highly effective model for politicizing gay identity as a means to gay liberation. By finding the same channels of power behind personal behavior and institutions of society, Foucault enables the gay community to make every act of gay-ness a tiny, palpable revolution against the forces that would keep them down.
Productive power is everywhere.
It is present in all human reactions and relationships. Because it works on the micro-level it turns all relationships into power relationships. This is liberating to the Gay movement because it allows gays to view sexuality and ideas that surround it not as psychological but as political problems. It turns homophobic rhetoric and ideas into a political problem and thus the gay community winds up treating it as a political idea. In the same way that homophobia is political homosexuality also becomes a political position in the matrix of power.