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Maybe it's because I do most of my socializing among furries, a diverse and primarily queer crowd[1], but I had never heard anyone suggest queer didn't include
by Kye 7y ago
Maybe it's because I do most of my socializing among furries, a diverse and primarily queer crowd[1], but I had never heard anyone suggest queer didn't include gay people until your comment. Where did you hear that?
[1] https://vis.adjectivespecies.com/furrysurvey/overview/ https://vis.adjectivespecies.com/furrysurvey/overview/
- throwanem 7y agoAmong a crowd that includes a lot of furries, actually! "Queer" as an identification has lately been picked up (revived and reclaimed, really) as, among other things, a way of opting out of a lot of the assimilationist and gym-clone tropes that've taken over so much of what it means to be "gay". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer has a reasonable overview, to which I'd add only that it's also a good term of identification for men who love men, but who find "gay" to be so rigid and prescriptive in its meaning that it fails to accurately describe us.
- Kye 7y ago>> "Among a crowd that includes a lot of furries, actually!" That's practically implied on a tech industry forum! But I think I see your point.