I understand why a generation of gay people - perhaps principally gay men - can never hear "queer" as anything other than the term of hatred and abuse that was hurled at them (I have much less sympathy for Tumblr teens who talk about "the q-slur")
Same - and I've known it even from a gay man my age, in his early 30s. Though at the same time, "gay" was a general insult, used for anything bad or boring, throughout my adolescence, and that feels weirdly underdiscussed sometimes. I mean, we just had to get over that. Idk.
I love queer too <3 Esp as a signifier of community and politics, both - I'm a big believer that identity is not an individual thing, it's a thing defined in community.
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I understand why a generation of gay people - perhaps principally gay men - can never hear "queer" as anything other than the term of hatred and abuse that was hurled at them (I have much less sympathy for Tumblr teens who talk about "the q-slur")
Same - and I've known it even from a gay man my age, in his early 30s. Though at the same time, "gay" was a general insult, used for anything bad or boring, throughout my adolescence, and that feels weirdly underdiscussed sometimes. I mean, we just had to get over that. Idk.
I love queer too <3 Esp as a signifier of community and politics, both - I'm a big believer that identity is not an individual thing, it's a thing defined in community.