“Gay is a slur” you’re so obnoxious??? Gay was a term CHOSEN by gay men to describe themselves, q*eer on the other hand has been used AGAINST lgbt people. It’s an lgbt person’s choice to reclaim q*eer but you can’t use it to generalise. Gay, on the other hand, can’t be reclaimed because it was literally chosen by gay people themselves

wetwareproblem:

anacttohidetheirenvy:

show 👏🏽 me 👏🏽 where 👏🏽 i 👏🏽 generalised

also like??? fuck off????????? just cause something is chosen by a marginalised group doesnt mean that it cant be used as a slur

@wetwareproblem u might be interested in this idek

Actually, anon is flat-out wrong: “Gay,” as used by the community, derives from “gay cat,” a turn-of-the-century term for a young hobo who traded sexual favours to an older one in exchange for protection and teaching.

You can ignore that and say “Well sure but we started using it as a self identifier anyway a long time ago,” and you’d be right! The first documented use of “gay” as positive code for people like us was in Gertrude Stein’s 1922 story Miss Furr and Miss Skeene – a story she had originally started writing in 1908.

The problem, though, is that that’s hardly the first story of love between two women that Stein wrote. An excerpt from Fernhurst, written in 1903:

“She is queer and will interest you and you are queer and will interest her. Oh! I don’t want to listen to your protests, you are queer and interesting even if you don’t know it and you like queer and interesting people even if you think you don’t.”

So yeah. Queer’s pedigree is every bit as good as gay’s, and longer.