Tbh, I don’t really understand the tendency to try to add ‘queer’ to the LGBTIA+ acronym.
Seems to me like queer is itself a community term for LGBTIA+ people that resist labelling and a signular focus on identity politics, that strive towards a more revolutionary and intersectional approach to queer politics, and do not want to be assimilated into a pro-capitalist Gay Rights Under Capitalism movement.
Given all that, why would you want to put the Q under a big LGBTIA+ umbrella? What’s in it for the queer movement? Why would you try to get ‘queer’ a seat at the table of identity politics?
What’s the point?
Queer isn’t a population group within the LGBTIA+ community, it’s a whole movement of its own. So why try to be just another letter in the acronym?
evolvingga: replied to your post: Tbh, I don’t really understand the tendency to try… Queer was long used as a slur akin to fa**ot and so the label glbt, LGBT, etc evolved over time and only after our community reclaimed the word queer has its connotation changed. So it makes more sense now that queer could be used as a catch all term but for some of the older generation it hurts to hear the word queer used to label our community because it was used as a slur against our community for a long time.
That is a very weird way to frame this. While queer was once a slur, it was very throughoutly reclaimed and normalized by the late 90′s. Universities even opened ‘queer studies’ departments and mainstream as well as LGBT bookshops had a ‘queer’ section. It was THAT normal.
You don’t name a university department after a semi-reclaimed slur. You only do that when there is a very broad support of the word queer.
The new wave of opposition to queer is recent. It was almost non-existent online 10 years ago.
The new wave of opposition to queer is also predominantly pushed by younger members of the LGBT community, especially young people who also sympathize with various forms of exclusionism.
