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True true, it's not new just more broadly accepted lately. And absolutely should not be used by cisgendered hetero people to dismiss us as abnormal. It was also only pretty recent that the use of it as an umbrella term has overtaken the pejorative. It's perfectly understandable that some are...

Words have history, queer was and still is used in a deragotory manor to demean and other people for being gender or sexual minorities. The word queer in contexts outside of actual humans does mean odd an unusual and was used to describe people as wrong or unnatural. It is only in the last few...

No, this is the pejorative meaning of Queer. The point of using it now is to reclaim that. Queer people exist, they are normal, and they are and have been in all aspects of your life. Please do not use the word if you think that's what it means.