Reclaiming the "Q" word first got popularized by Queer Nation back in the 90's and they have an.... interesting past that I'm not going to be able to do justice to, so you might as well just Google them. I just want to say that back then the definition of queer was just supposed to be an aggressive fuck-you style synonym for LGBT directed at the homophobes. Like, you calling me this word won't hurt me anymore, because I call myself this word.

From there the word got stolen by academics and re-appropriated to mean............ I'm not even sure what. But you've heard of "Queer Studies" so that's what I'm talking about.

From there it got re-appropriated by...... Attention-seeking edgy college kids who wanted to be part of the cool-kid club (LGBT) but..... didn't want to actually eat puss (as a female) or suck dick (as a male) but being an Ally was lame, and for how long can you be "Q"uestioning until someone says "make up your mind already?" and claiming Bi/Pan just opened you up to having to suck dick/eat vag, so hiding behind the label of Queer became the thing to do. If anyone tried to ask you WTF you actually mean by "I am queer" you could scream "OMG HOW DAAARE YOU??? REEEEEE!!!" and everyone would rush over to your defense, because everyone knows it's poor etiquette to question someone about their orientation.

From there, Queer got re-appropriated to mean gender stuff. Like all the non-binary, a-gender, I'm a girl on Tuesdays, and a boy on Fridays stuff. And that's where we're at now. We are in a timeline where Queer doesn't even mean LGBT anymore, it means a completely different thing.

I have hated this word through every different version it's gone through, except for the original version which just meant weird. If you ever read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which is the queerest book I know, IIRC the word is used in that book over 40 times. They managed to fuck that damned word beyond any kind of meaning it ever actually had.

(And because I never get to share this fact, Pollyanna, which is the book with the most ejaculations that I know of, has over 20 ejaculate/d's.)