Thread 40099260

what don't the other letters cover that you need to invent the queer label? i've only heard the vaguest shit about it, basically a catch-all term that ultimately means nothing, "it's not heterosexuality, it's not cisgender". but what IS it?

>>40099260 (OP)
Sexually weird (spicy pervert)

>>40099260 (OP)
You answered your own question, it's a catch all term meaning not cis and/or not heterosexual

>>40099370
no i didn't. WHY do you need a catch-all? WHAT IS it catching, that other letters did not cover?
is it other genders, like 'agender', 'two-spirit', etc.? i mean, is there anything reasonable that would be covered by this that i'm missing?
>same thread
well if you gave this answer last time i could understand posting it again
>>40099311
can you give an example of that? you mean fetishes or what? maybe pansexuality / tranny-inclusive bisexuality?

>>40099542
yeah sure weird genders (listed) and weird sexual preferences, demi or pan or whatever, the tumblr shit. and spicy people generally (straight femboys, androgenous/non-binnies)
>WHY do you need a catch-all
it's just a term, it's not needed or mandated or anything. it's preferred nomenclature by the people who are caught by it

>>40099260 (OP)
as far as on the acronym goes, it's meaningless. you have lgbt, then q, persumably to catch everything that somehow isn't l, g b or t, THEN a plus which also covers everything else? bullshit. it's lgbt+ or just lgbt.

>>40099650
I think it’s funny though like Queer was never part of LGBTQ, the Q meant questioning. Queer was just a slur for fags. And then they added the Q around the same time people were trying to reclaim it and use it for tumblr genderlarping so most people just assumed that’s what the Q meant and it became normalized

>>40099260 (OP)
It's used loosely to mean 'anything that doesn't fall neatly into categories' nowadays but traditionally it's been used to specifically denote politically radical deconstructionists who consider all labels and categories to be semantic constructs and are fluid in sexuality and gender expression. A practical example that crosses over between old (say 70s) and today's usage (and I've met ones from both generations) would be very butch leather AFAB lesbians who microdose T as a body mod and present more masc than plenty of basedjak cis men but still call themselves lesbians despite having facial stubble from T. They're not exactly trans but they're not exactly cis either. 'Queer' just goes down easier in conversation than trying to fit into a specific box.