bobcatmoran:vaspider:vastderp: fairytale-villain: A good thread on whether “queer” is a
bobcatmoran:vaspider:vastderp: fairytale-villain: A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not. This right here “Everyone who came out before you has taken the rocks and bottles and turned them into shields and wind chimes.”May we never forget that someone did this for us and that we must continue to do it for others. Addition to this: I also went to Macalester, and by the time I was there in the early 2000s, the LGBT Union of Sigrid Ellis’ time was Queer Union and nobody even batted an eye at the name, because that was seen as an inclusive term for all stripes of non-heterosexual, non-cisgender people, even if their own personal identities didn’t slot nicely into a box that had a name. -- source link