Bookey Are You Queer?
Reclaiming... somethin'
12 July 1999: Bookey Are
You Queer?
The wonderful Lindsay
read every article in every
LGNY I
brought her -- at her request-- and her number one question was about the word
Queer. I use it pretty regularly in my writing for
LGNY. She
thought it would be an offensive term, and I went through the lengthy
explanation about "reclaiming" the word. Etc. When you get right down to it, I
am not afraid to call myself anything any of my enemies are willing to throw at
me. Frankly, they would be more terrified to be labelled queer or fag or a nancy
boy. Go ahead, call me a cocksucker. I mean, that's sort of the point, isn't it?
I mean, pretty accurate so far,
sweetie.
I also explained that
personally, with the idiotic alphabet soup of LGBTTSQH making acronyms longer
and longer, Queer makes more an more sense. I mean, we are pretty queer,
different. Even those assimilationists, going through great pains to convince
everyone how much they are like everyone else are going to great lengths to
convince everyone, and that's pretty queer, if you ask me.
Posted: Mon - July 12, 1999 at 02:48 AM