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[–]hufflepuff-poet 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who were the other "queer people" getting demolished during the AIDS crisis?! Cus it was mainly gay and bisexual men who had sex with other men who were being affected during the AIDS epidemic.

And y'know what those gay men were called when they were denied healthcare, or denied access to their dying loved one, or stigmatized for being "dirty"--queer. Queer wasn't some fun alternative way of saying gay, it was a slureant to degrade gay men because they were viewed as inferior, deserving of death and misery and diseased BECAUSE THEY WERE SAME-SEX ATTRACTED.

Q*eer is a slur, often the last word many gay men hear before they're murdered or assualted for their same-sex attraction. So can straight people please stop using it to make themselves feel "cool and special".