LogFAQs > #946196258

Really, it's one that has evolved incredibly fast. Even "gay" has gone through the same process, where it was treated as a bad thing to call somebody as recently as ten years ago but has since become happily embraced by the community. "Queer" was always generally worse than "gay," given the mildly pejorative connotation (prior to its use to describe gay people, it was a synonym for "weird"), but it's also very quickly evolved to have people happily describing themselves as being unusual (mostly because the progress toward gay acceptance has made "unusual" become a much more accepted descriptor). It's understandable, though, that people are wary of a term that was almost exclusively used to insult gay people within very recent memory, since the interpretation has changed quite dramatically in a very short period of time.

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