[Air-l] Social media in rural communities

[Dominic Pinto]

--- James Whyte <whyte.james at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is "queer" acceptable (non-prejudicial) these days?
> I have a hard time keeping up with the fashion.
>    

I hadn't seen (or more accurately I guess heard) it
used for many years. It had, I suppose, become
politically uncorrect (incorrect?) to talk about
queers in the early '70s. Very not PC, but people used
to talk about queer bashing.

Seeing it used came as a bit of a shock - but a quick
search revealed quite a lot of current usage (a few
URLs follow), so presumably it's a term
happily/conciously used by the gay young folk
themselves. Are there not gay old or middle aged folk
as well? Or is it solely used by the young queers?

Language usage and meanings do change, and well may go
in cycles of change in meaning if not acceptability.

Mind, I gave up having a fag (UK English usage if not
fashion) about 15 years ago.

http://www.queeryouth.org.uk/

http://www.fyne.co.uk/index.php?item=94

http://www.qnet.org.au/content/faqs_and_articles/publications/Yes_I_Am.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Youth_Alliance

http://dixitque.blogspot.com/2006/01/more-queer-fiction-for-young-people.html

http://bayarea-nodrink.tribe.net/thread/39bec6e4-b1ae-49fd-87be-03cf78eb60f1

Dominic

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