textfail - 28/02/2009 17:03 - United States
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TooLesbian - 25/09/2014 02:33 - Australia - Kellyville
Anonymous - 22/07/2014 17:39 - United States - San Francisco
Is that..? - - United States - Aurora
Anonymous - 28/01/2014 21:57 - Bahrain - Manama
I am the OP for this post. She is not my friend, just the sister of a friend (I live with both). Where I live in Australia, "queer" is still used as a derogatory word against gay people, and gay men and women are often called that by homophobes in public. She is completely straight, but thinks she is revolutionary by joining the gay rights movement as an "ally". Because she knows gay people, she assumes that she is entitled to use words we call ourselves. She knows I'm not comfortable with the word "queer" because I've had it used against me by bullies at high school, but she continues to use it because "it's an umbrella term" (although it isn't, some a word SOME LGBT people call themselves). She isn't a homophobe, and I'm not insinuating that she is - just really annoying.