“Queer is a slur” is used by terfs and cis gays/lesbians to silence the voices of trans/nonbinary/intersex/bi/pan/ace people in society and even within our own communities, to isolate us and shame us for existing.
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Pro tip: when you alter historical evidence to deny a marginalised group empowerment, you’re one of the bad guys.
Cis LGs have literally taken historical evidence of queer people’s involvement in the LGBT rights struggle and photoshopped it to erase us: It’s classic divide-and-conquer tactics: when our umbrella term is redefined as a slur and we’re harassed into silence for using it, we no longer have a word for what we are allowing us to organise for social/political/economic support we are denied the opportunity to influence or shape the spaces we inhabit we can’t challenge existing community power structures we’re erased from our own history. Subsequently adopted by cis gays and cis lesbians to exclude bi/pan and ace Intersex people from feminist and non-heterosexual discourse, and was Whereas ‘queer’ is treated exactly opposite: a small but vocal group of people within feminist and LGBTQIA+ circles insists that it’s a slur and demands that others to stop using it as a personal, self-chosen identity label.īecause “queer is a slur” was invented by terfs specifically to exclude trans, nonbinary, and We have ad campaigns, twitter hashtags, and viral Facebook posts defending ‘gay’ as an identity label and asking people to stop using it as a slur. We accept that even though ‘gay’ sometimes is and historically frequently was used in a derogatory manner, mlm individuals have the right to use that word. Yet nobody is suggesting we should abolish ‘gay’ as a label.
There’s absolutely no historical or sociolinguistic reason why ‘queer’ should be a worse slur than ‘gay.’ Remember how we had all those campaigns to make people stop using ‘gay’ as a synonym for ‘bad’? We’re the marginalised majority within the LGBTQIA+ community, andĪnd that’s equally pissing off and terrifying terfs and cis LGs. People identifying as queer are typically not cis gays or cis lesbians, but bi, pan, ace, trans, nonbinary, intersex, etc.: we’re the silent/ced letters. ‘Queer’ was reclaimed as an umbrella term for people identifying as not-heterosexual and/or not-cisgender in the early 1980s, but being queer is more than just being non-straight/non-cis it’s a political and ideological statement, a label asserting an identity distinct from gay and/or traditional gender identities.
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