- it's likely to become an ongoing series, in addition to my asking you lot for your various views. These are for an information and resource website for students
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Thank you, lovely - do ramble, ramble at me and I shall ramble at you and we can have lots of fun unpicking the gender binary (latest news: it has a fractal character...) - what would be more useful to me would be some crashingly persuasive stuff I can throw at my colleagues for 2, and general internet resources I can throw at people for 1 and 3. Big articles. Stuff like that :)
re point 1: that's certainly a meaning of "queer" but it isn't the only one. Some monosexual G and L people call themselves queer too - mostly it's a reclaiming of the term from when it was an insult. And some people use it to mean anyone who's somewehere in the whole LGBT continuum - that's the meaning i've heard most and tend to assume when i hear the word. There was a bit of a discussion of this at Brum BiFest. Some one said there'd been debates about using the word "queer" for the last 5-10 years. Afterwards i was talking to softfruit and we worked out we'd both been around for 20 years of debates on it - and it made me felt a bit old!
Thanks, that's a good point and I'd meant it originally but not written it clearly enough - I've now edited the post to try and convey this knowledge too: is it okay?
'the whole continuum' - that's mostly what I use as well: it's a useful shortening of 'LBGTQQIAAP', for example, or just 'not straight' or even 'not heteronormative' (as this could also encompass non-binaried sex, non-cisgendered, non-mono, non-sure identities, as well as allies, in addition to sexuality. Yay for inclusivity :) - though, I generally follow my uses of 'queer' with an explanation as lots of people seem to interpret it as mostly meaning L or G.
Yup, the other prevalent backgrounds/uses of queer come from:
-queer activism scenes, things in the US like ACT UP and in the UK like OUTRAGE.
-academic body of work these days known as queer theory.
the usages from these histories both have similar-but-different meanings to the ones you've used above. APologies, I'm hectic atm, but googling and link folliwng should give you some good ideas of what people are meaning by 'queer' from these contexts ,and when I'm less warg, will come back to tis.
- well, indeed - it's where groups who are already advertising as being LBGT and are not doing as much to cover the T as their using the term implies, that change could be helpful. My group already uses LBGT and has done for a while: this is simply to answer the questions of a couple of members. :)
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There was a bit of a discussion of this at Brum BiFest. Some one said there'd been debates about using the word "queer" for the last 5-10 years. Afterwards i was talking to softfruit and we worked out we'd both been around for 20 years of debates on it - and it made me felt a bit old!
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'the whole continuum' - that's mostly what I use as well: it's a useful shortening of 'LBGTQQIAAP', for example, or just 'not straight' or even 'not heteronormative' (as this could also encompass non-binaried sex, non-cisgendered, non-mono, non-sure identities, as well as allies, in addition to sexuality. Yay for inclusivity :) - though, I generally follow my uses of 'queer' with an explanation as lots of people seem to interpret it as mostly meaning L or G.
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-queer activism scenes, things in the US like ACT UP and in the UK like OUTRAGE.
-academic body of work these days known as queer theory.
the usages from these histories both have similar-but-different meanings to the ones you've used above. APologies, I'm hectic atm, but googling and link folliwng should give you some good ideas of what people are meaning by 'queer' from these contexts ,and when I'm less warg, will come back to tis.
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- well, indeed - it's where groups who are already advertising as being LBGT and are not doing as much to cover the T as their using the term implies, that change could be helpful. My group already uses LBGT and has done for a while: this is simply to answer the questions of a couple of members. :)
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