Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word queer also implies a difference between gays and lesbians and "straight" individuals. "`Queer national' is a term of pride and recognition of full moral and spiritual equality with heterosexuals," says Thomas B. Watson '91, president of the Arts Organization for the Advancement of Sexual Minorities (ORGASM...
...because "queer" acknowledges a difference, some members of the gay and lesbian community shy away from it. BGLSA co-chair Charles R. Flatt '92 says that people who are coming to terms with their sexuality are often put off by the activist political connotations the word carries...
...People who are just coming out are not ready to hear the word queer. They have to come out in a community where they don't have to change the world," Flatt says...
...sure bigots are ingenious enough that if the word `queer' is reclaimed they will find another to insult us," he says...
Ravenscroft, who describes herself as a lesbian, says she likes the word "queer," opposes "homosexual," but on the whole, doesn't worry about it too much...