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The Q word

  • 15-11-2016 6:29pm
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    Rainman16
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    Hey everyone. I was wondering how the gay community in Ireland feel about the word "Queer"

    For all my life, growing up in rural Ireland, I always thought that the Q word was a pejorative term against homosexuals, I only viewed the word only in it's negative context.

    Up until very recently I had only known of term LGBT. as an initialism that stood for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

    But ironically it was Donald Trump who I first heard use the initialism LGBTQ, and I was surprised to find out the Q stood for Queer.

    Looking into it further I read that LGBT organisation prefer adding Q to the initialism, taking want used to be a negative term to describe sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or not cisgender.


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