there is a bunch of midwest issues

a) that people from the midwest moved to chicago or sf or ny and wanted to forget their identites

b) that the swex writing about the midwest is written by people who view them as savages, and t he like

c) that when a midwestern kink or queer centre rose up in the 80s it was more about being kinky or queer and less about being part of a geographical centre

d) much of the work written about the midwest from a queer perspective then is highly speicalised, or highly persoanl, and it is diffuclt making general statements about it