Then a couple years ago I was getting fucked by a brutal top one night in San Francisco. I used to think it was an evil word, one we should never reclaim. People with identities outside “gay, straight, or bi” feel represented by “queer.”Ĭase Against: Many folks in our community remember “queer” painfully, as a word often used to demean feminine men.
Queers both respect our history and push us to be better.Ĭase For: By resisting an easy definition, “queer” challenges us to talk about identity.
“Queer” addresses the fluidity of gender and sexual orientation and defines those who use it as people focused on problems largely ignored by the gay rights movement: racism, wage inequality, women’s rights, transphobia, and so on. Many young people - myself included - view “queer” as a term defining all nonstraight, nonbinary identities. Today, interpretations of “queer” go a step further, and its acceptance generally splits along generational lines.
#Gay lingo words full
With the advent of queer theory and the launch of Queer as Folk, “queer” became used online as a more concise umbrella term than the full LGBT+ acronym (which, depending on who you ask, is LGBTQQIP2SAA). A common slogan you can still find on T-shirts and in queer bars across the country is “Not gay as in happy, but queer as in ‘fuck you.’” “We’re here, we’re queer” became a protest mantra while anarcho-queers rallied around “queercore,” the queer punk music scene, a term some credit to cult filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. “Queer” got rebranded in the ’90s during the AIDS crisis. The press recorded it and the slur stuck. So many zingers are recorded from those trials that this seems plausible: Sir John Douglas, the Marquess of Queensbury (seriously), who first called Wilde a sodomite and launched the gay playwright’s epic demise, reportedly called Wilde a “snob queer” during the proceedings.
Some archivist or queer historian may corroborate or squash this idea, one I heard from a gay elder and pass on to you - that “queer” was actually the word preferred by the first wave of queens, fresh from the closet, sweating in word-of-mouth discotheques that migrated through the city.Īccording to the internet, “queer” first became an antigay slur during the trials of Oscar Wilde. I can find little evidence of this on the internet, but since gay culture is passed down through hearsay and gossip, I’m including this. In America, some say, “queer” was the first term.
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