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aceoppression:

getyourdiscoursehere:

science-assthetic:

I remember seeing some post trying to say ace people shouldn’t be considered queer, and I guess that associating the word queer with weird/odd is problematic?

But like

That’s exactly why lgbt+ people used to be called queer? Like its literal definition is:

queer
kwir/
adjective
strange; odd.

It was originally a bad word which the community took and said “Yeah so what if I’m weird! I’m alright with that! I’m queer, hell yeah!” like, that was the whole point. To take this word with negative connotations and make it useless by just accepting it and identifying with it

So, yes. Queer does mean weird/odd.Its’s not problematic to acknowledge the history behind the word.

Like useless rant post, but it just bugs me that some people are literally refusing the history behind a very important word that is intrinsically tied to lgbt history.

And also fuck your aphobia

hell website

.l……that’s…..not how it happened oh my god get some LGBT education please

Do educate me

The community didn’t go “oh look q***r means strange, people think we’re strange lol let’s call ourselves that!”.

Homophobes and transphobes started calling us that well the curbstomped us and raided gay bars. To them we were strange, weird, sexually provocative and repulsive. So while they were beating the living daylights out of us they screamed f*gg*t and q***r.

In the 18th century people began to call gay men q***r. It became a prominent slur in the 20th Century. Any feminine man was called it, accompanied by a shove or spitting on your shoes.

By the 1950s q***r had become synonymous with anyone fitting LGBT stereotypes. Masculine women. Feminine men. Men wearing dresses. Women wearing tuxes. Gay men. Lesbians. Transgender people. Everyone was shoved under the slur.

During stonewall the iconic 1969 riot, cops and passerby shouted f*gg*t and yes, q***rs. Well we were beaten and dragged away by cops those words were shouted at us.

AIDS was first discovered in the 1980s. It was originally called Gay-Related-Immune-deficiency-syndrome or GRIDS. That was the official, medical term being used by doctors.

People called aids the gift they had been waiting for to kill all the gays. They called it the gay plague. In the first year, 121 people died. The presdient ignored it.

We rallied in the streets, pleading for research, funding, Anything. People spit on us and threw bottles. Said us “filthy q***rs” deserved it.

In 1983 they changed the name to AIDS, after much civil uproar. However there was no government funding to research or treat AIDS, so they let us die.

The White House did not give an official statement on AIDS until 1986, 6 years after the first infection and after 20,000 reported cases of AIDS.

Reagan wouldn’t even let the surgeon general speak on AIDS. His administration allowed thousands of people to die. He refused to fund research until the end of his term.

So in summary, we did not see the word q***r and go hey! I’m weird I’m gonna call myself that!!! We tried to camouflage ourselves and pretend we weren’t weird in fear of getting smashed over the head with a broken bottle.

We wanted anything to not be called q***r, it was a slur thrown at us. It still is a slur thrown at us.

In 2016 I was called a “fucking q***r” before being punched in the mouth. The word q***r feels like a slap in the face to me.

I suggest you do more research on both stonewall and the AIDS crisis. Investigate 20th Century LGBT history and understand the history of these words.

The word is a slur, it will never not be a slur. There is no such thing as a “reclaimed slur” it can end personally reclaimed, but no one can decide that it has been reclaimed. That’s a personal decision you can make for yourself and yourself only. I will never reclaim q***r and I personally loathe the word.

@science-assthetic