GW頃には芝桜で有名なヤマサ蒲鉾さんに蓮の花を見に行ってきました。想像していたより蓮畑の規模大きい。 本当は朝早くに行った方がいいのだろうけど、朝起きられなくてお昼前に到着。もう花を閉じている子もちらほらと。

According to this google trends, the phrase “is queer a slur”, there were no results until May 2013. Now, I’m not implying “queer” isn’t used as a slur or hadn’t been considered a slur until then, but SOMETHING happened in May 2013 that caused a bunch of people to search that.

Similarly, the oldest posts I’ve seen tagged on tumblr with the phrase “q slur” have been from 2013, and have so far not found any earlier posts with the tag. (and really I have no way of knowing if the tag was added at a later time) So far what I’ve found is the actual censoring/starring of queer and use of “q slur” has been predominately from 2016 onwards, and people that used the tag before then would frequently use it as a catch-all term or to refer to themself. It wasn’t until the past few years that those people started telling others not to use it to refer to other people.

And all three together

It was before 2016 though that there started to be discourse about whether asexual experiences were enough like other LGBT+ experiences for them to be allowed to reclaim the word queer for themselves. I think that is when I first can remember people beginning to refer to it as a slur. (I feel like that is where the idea came from that the criteria for being a part of the LGBT+ community was oppression rather than sexual orientation.)