Nothing makes me cringe and want to scream at the top of my lungs more than glorifying the word “queer”

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[–]8bitgay 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So, for other people whose mother language isn't English, how do you feel about it?

I find it so bizarre how local communities have adopted the word queer. In English at least it was already a word, and people have the excuse of saying they're appropriating it (whether you agree with it or not).

But here the word never existed until recently! They can't appropriate anything, because no one ever used queer as a slur here. And if there really existed some sincere need to create a new category of sexuality/gender/umbrella term (because queer magically is everything at once), then why the hell did no one create it before? Isn't it such a big coincidence that people only started identifying as a word that didn't even exist in our language just as this identity started becoming more popular in USA, the country which they keep trying to copy?

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

While I'm kind of out of the loop in regards to Serbia and LGBTQ activism over there, I've heard that they're using 'qvir' (although I'm not sure in what context) and that peder is now considered a slur. Peder used to be catch all term for gay men and gay people in general (lezbika for lesbians and biseksualac/biseksualna for bisexuals), however, the origin for peder comes from pederast, or pedophile. So if anything, using qvir might be better since it doesn't have that awful origin over there. Despite this, I'd prefer homoseksualna/lezbika over qvir since I've lived in an English speaking country all my life and have had queer hurled at me as an insult more than lesbian or homosexual.

[–]Destresse🇨🇵 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, same. "Queer" is used here too, it's "trendy" because it's English, basically. Online, people very much appropriate the American history of it. Offline, most people don't know what it means. They haven't heard of it.

Two years ago, pride in my city was stopped by a group of "radical queers", whatever that means. All I know is that they caused trouble and the march didn't happen as a result. The news and main LGBT groups said it was due to the bad weather though