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Doe posted...

I guess queer is the gay nword

There are several words that have historically been used as anti-gay hate speech. 'Queer' is going through a kind of reclamation to refer to anyone who falls somewhere in the LGBT spectrum, but opinions on that are still super divided because older gay people still remember getting called 'queer' as they were being beaten in the streets, and their memories and experiences are 100% valid here. We can't just steam roll them. And the hateful use of the word 'queer' still pops up from time to time. It's fraught with history and context, that word. Now people mostly identify themselves as queer, or use it in highly general ways to refer to a demographic of 'not-straight and/or gender-conforming' people of a larger group ('queer persons of color, queer artists, etc.).
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