Everything is like āQUEER historyā and āList of QUEER young adult booksā or āTop 10 QUEER moviesā and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
Itās not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is āitās faster to sayā, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
Itās called economĆa del lenguaje.
Itās also the respected academic term?? The acronym isnāt static and itās usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didnāt always use or identify with the terms we use now and you canāt always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if youāre talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if youāre talking about more than one identity or someone who doesnāt conform to our perceptions of āLGBT,ā or a person or people whose identity you donāt know, queer is just the better word.
āThatās SO gayā, āOh my god, youāre not a LESBIAN, are you?ā
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I donāt get mine? What makes you so special?
Iām here, Iām queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout aboutĀ āqueer is a slurā a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that wordĀ ātabooā is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
weāre here, weāre queer, get used to it.
I donāt know if this is just because Iām not American but Iāve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didnāt like was āsoo gayā. Queer wasnāt even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that itās a unifying term. You can say youāre queer and all people will know is that youāre part of the community. But you canāt say youāre LGBT, you have to say youāre gay or trans or ace. They donāt want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether youāre undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other āgayā as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether āgayā is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether youāre undesirable.
